Manspreading: It's something most of us were oblivious to a couple of weeks ago, but it's been in our faces quite a lot lately... if you'll pardon the image.
Following Anna Dovgalyuk and her 'video manifesto' - since reported to be fake - a new anti-manspreading campaign has been launched and people are getting irate all over again. This time the London Underground has been targeted, with posters threatening those who manspread.
The posters read: "Oi big bollocks! No manspreading on public transport. Or the Class War Women's Death Brigade will get you."
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The message is accompanied by a rather menacing skull and crossbones and a giant pair of scissors.
Class War is an anarchist campaign group and newspaper, set up by Ian Bone in 1983. The founder sparked outrage last month when he was filmed heckling Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, in front of his wife and children, shouting: "Your daddy is a horrible person!"
The latest controversy has been greeted with a similarly hostile reaction.
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Commenting on the posters on social media, one person said: "I just really want to know why, when there are starving kids and stabbing every other day, people are so preoccupied with the way men sit?? Maybe if we pooled together on an important issue something might actually change. Let the bollocks fly free, let's feed the poor instead."
Admittedly not everyone was opposed to the campaign, with another person adding: "It's fine when it's not excessive. But then you have those prize twats on a packed train with people either side of them and they are doing the splits. That's not about comfort - that's about being selfish!"
The Russian anti-manspreading footage, which provoked countless disapproving remarks, showed Dovgalyuk appearing to pour a bleach mixture onto the crotches of manspreaders on the metro in St. Petersburg as a means of combating 'gender aggression'.
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However, it has since been claimed by EU vs Disinfo that the video was a fake and was supposedly a piece of anti-feminist propaganda. If this is the case, it did just the trick as it sparked a number of angry reactions online.
When the video was initially published, Russian news outlet Rosbalt claimed it was a fake and actors were used in the video. But Miss Dovgalyuk denied this, saying: "My action is absolutely real. I don't think people are going to go to the police to file a report about jeans."
However, one of the men in the video, Stanislav Kudrin, has since said on Facebook that he was paid for the stunt and that it was 'naturally staged'.
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What a confusing time to be alive - a time when men might be making a living by having water poured on their balls for anti-feminist propaganda videos.
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