As near as I can tell, this is a real thing. At least, no one’s called “boolsheet” on it, yet.
SRSLY, sweetheart, if your ‘personal space’ is so important, stop riding the Metro and buy a damb car.
This really wouldn’t be so bad, except that equally insane, neurotic people like the woman in the picture are in positions of power and setting policy. Which is why the life of any man in college can be destroyed by a false allegation of rape, or because he said something perfectly innocuous and anodyne that rubbed some personal space boxer/social justice warrior the wrong way.
She should have been thrown off the train the moment she stepped onto it with that “box.” But of course she’s a delicate snowflake that can’t have her feelings hurt.
Having lived in NYC and took two trains to work, can you imagine the danger that fool could have put people in a crisis. She should have brought a real box and put it over her head.
This is quite ironic considering many people are shaming men who take up too much space on public transportation. Here are some webpages on the subject:
http://mentakingup2muchspaceonthetrain.tumblr.com/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/men-taking-up-too-much-space-on-the-train-is-the-feminist-tu#.tnM525eK6
Someone is going to wrap that thing around her neck.
I LOVE IT!!!
It’s the *best* possible sign to men, saying, “STAY AWAY…CRRAAAAZY B!TCH AHEAD!”
Hold the phone! I just called the DOJ personal space czar and it turns out that personal space is a function of the girth of the person at the hips and therefore, Mooch-elle gets significantly greater personal space than this waif. And that is without factoring in the white privilege factor that Mooch-elle gets through social justice reparations. Not that Mooch-elle will ever be among the hoi-polloi, but still ……
If that “thing” was harnessed to her at body-height, I might — might — be impressed. But having it resting loose on the floor semi-blocking an exit gives me the horrors. In an emergency, that frame is a lethal tripping-hazard, and in a crush people could die.
Just another irrelevant and insignificant yuppie-whiner risking other peoples lives to make some non-existential and meaningless point that existing only in her fevered self-indulgent world-view. She should have-been cited and ticketed for “risking a catastrophe” in a public venue.
Yet another reason I’m glad I live in the countryside were you at-least have some opportunity to see “them” coming and get out of their way…
Oh look, another self involved, self important, and self righteous douchebag beclowning herself. LOL
Is that the Mbta? It looks like the red line.
She ought to be arrested for blocking the door.
Screams victim to me.
She needs to share a piece of her box.
Some people are so insecure in who they are they have to garner attention in what they consider to be “unique” ways.
This woman has no idea what reality really is. She shames her sex and herself. (all under the guise of hey…look at me! look at me!)
And yes, what Kauf Buch said is quite right…LOONY TOONS AHEAD…DETOUR. NOW!
So I guess manspreading is fine now, right?
Spellcheck is your friend.
One is tempted to point out that when the box is on the ground, marking her “footprint,” her boobs are outside the protective boundaries of the Box. (Unless she’s claiming airspace rights that extend upward indefinitely.)
The story’s been around for months and there is absolutely no indication that it was a “feminist personal space box” as opposed to someone transporting an art/metalwork project. http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/2a0yyf/tw_not_tumblr_feminist_personal_space_cube_pol/
And you’re an idiot.