Anti-Spread by Hmckenzie

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‘Manspreading’, the practice of sitting in public transportation with legs wide apart, thus taking up more than one seat, has become a well known issue in large cities such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Washington D.C. So far, it has been recognized as an issue by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City and the Sound Transit in Seattle. The MTA has even designed posters with the slogan “Dude, stop the spread please!” with a cartoon representation of the practice. Articles have been written in the New York Times defending it as an important issue having to do with both polite public behavior and a sense of spatial entitlement most frequently observed in men. A blog, http://mentakingup2muchspaceonthetrain.tumblr.com/, has become quite popular, documenting everyday witnesses of manspreading.
This device is intended to be attached to the front of the seats on public buses, subways, and trains, in between each designated seat. It adjusts to the width of your body by sliding horizontally and acts and a reminder to not take up more space than you need, and to be aware of the other people around you. The spikes are to discourage simply placing legs over the device.