马德里公交车禁止男性岔开双腿占座
男性朋友注意了,以后乘坐西班牙马德里的公交,你可能需要保持双腿合拢的坐姿。因为如果你双腿大开地坐着,可能会侵犯别人的空间。在西方,这种行为有一个专有名词:‘大爷式占座’(manspreading)。马德里市公交系统针对“大爷式占座”行为专门在所有公交车上设置了警示标志。马德里市政运输公司称,这么做是为了提醒人们尊重每一位乘客的空间。 Madrid's transport authorities are taking a stand against seated male selfishness with a campaign to tackle the social scourge that is manspreading. Fed up with men whose thighs 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 deterred 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 posture that makes others uncomfortable,” the company said. The EMT came up with the initiative in partnership with Madrid city council’s equality department and the Microrrelatos Feministas collective, a women’s group that has launched an online petition for such signs to be installed. Their petition, which has more than 11,500 signatures, says: "All public transport has stickers explaining that room needs to be made for pregnant women, people with buggies, older people and those with disabilities, but there's something that affects all of us practically every time we use public transport: manspreading." Similar initiatives have been launched around the world. Three years ago, the New York subway system began a crackdown on the problem with a campaign called "Dude, stop the spread please. It's a space issue". Seattle's Sound Transit agency, meanwhile has used a sprawling purple octopus to plead for public transport courtesy. |