Have you ever been on a plane and sat beside a stranger who just didn’t seem to want to give you enough space?
According to Inside Edition, there are plenty of women out there who are finally putting a name to that super-uncomfortable feeling of sitting next to a strange man on a plane and feeling like he's creeping into your personal space when he spreads his legs a little too far into your seat and leg area.
This phenomenon is being called manspreading, and even thinking about it gives us the creeps.
Emily Brinkman, who was recently on a four-hour flight from Texas to Florida, took a series of photos and posted them to social media to showcase to the world how the individual sitting next to her on the flight was manspreading into her personal seat space.
“I definitely wasn’t comfortable with getting touched,” Emily explains. She goes on to divulge that she had asked the guy sitting next to her on the flight to give her some space, but she thinks that he soon forgot her polite requests and simply spread his legs out again without even noticing.
Inside Edition notes that another key issue in relation to manspreading is that airline seats keep getting smaller. Apparently, in the 1990s the seats on airplanes used to measure about 19 inches wide, and now some are down to just 16 inches in width.
To hear some sound advice from an expert if you should ever find yourself stuck beside a manspreader during a travel day, watch the full segment from Inside Edition.
