Madrid's transport authorities are taking a stand against seated male selfishness with a campaign to tackle the social scourge¹ that is manspreading.

 

马德里市交通部门对男士就坐时的自私表现采取了反对立场，发起治理“大爷式占座”这一社会不文明行为的运动。
 

 

Fed up with men whose thighs² fail to respect the boundaries of bus seats, the Spanish capital's Municipal Transport Company (EMT) is to put up signs discouraging the practice.

 

The EMT said the new signs are intended to remind people of the need to respect the space of all bus passengers.

 

Would-be manspreaders will hopefully be deterred³ by small pictures of a thoughtless, faceless red man invading the seat to his right.

 

"This new information sign is similar to those that already exist in other transport systems around the world to stop people adopting a posture⁴ that makes others uncomfortable," the company said.

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