womanspreading

Our manspreading went off without incident[…]. Womanspreading was a different prospect entirely, to the spreader, it felt rude and physically provocative. People opposite stared[…].

2015 January 9, Evening Standard

Women on screen, as in middle-class society, tend to be physically continent, trained not to take up too much space. In contemporary parlance, we have manspreading but not womanspreading.

2018, Rosie White, Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender (Library of Gender and Popular Culture 9), London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, page 16

Gender rules determine how a woman should feel, look, and behave. She is expected to be sexually and emotionally attracted to men, must have long hair, and should cross her legs when sitting (no womanspreading on public transit!).

2019, Manon Tremblay, “Introduction”, in Queering Representation: LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 14

Just want to thank Colin Fleming for his op-ed on womanspreading (“Can we talk about womanspreading?” Nov. 12).

2019 November 14, Daily News

Big dresses speak of a refusal to blend in: a desire to stand up and be counted. In fact, you could call them the ultimate in womanspreading. Even in 2019, a supposed age of equality, women are still ‘expected’ to sit a certain way:[…]

2019 September 13, Evening Standard