Womanspreading: It's a Trend!

Women across America are rising up against male sexual predators. They are calling out harassers and reasserting their dignity.

As Martha Stewart was wont to remark: It’s a good thing.

And now, to respond to the constant feminist complaints about manspreading, some young women-- fashion models, no less-- have decided that what’s good for men is good for women. They have taken up the practice of womanspreading. It’s an Instagram trend.

Apparently, it makes them feel empowered… just as so many women felt empowered by marching in the streets wearing what they called pussyhats. That will surely cause everyone to respect them for their minds!

The New York Post has the story, via The Sun:

Womanspreading is the latest trend taking Instagram by storm and is likely to be filling your feed in 2018.

The “power stance” pose sees women sitting with their legs spread open in front of the camera — fully clothed we hasten to add.

Models like Bella Hadid and Kaia Gerber are leading the way with the wide leg position.

The pose is designed to empower women, as it bucks the tradition of sitting poised with your knees together.

The stance is usually considered by many to be “unladylike” but these stars are unfazed.

The writer could not resist pointing out that this “power pose” is not really a power pose. It’s a bluff. Let’s hope that no one calls them on it. Since the writer feels constrained to point out that this “power pose” requires that women be clothed—actually, wearing pants would be more appropriate—the implication is that it is not quite as empowering as they imagine.

One is shocked but not surprised to see that young women really believe that spreading their legs suggestively will make them more powerful. It does not. It makes them more vulnerable. The notion that gestures mean whatever you want them to mean is one of the grand illusions of our time.

True enough, the knees-together pose was more ladylike, but, what was wrong with being more ladylike? Were women more likely to be harassed when they were acting more ladylike or when they are sitting at a meeting or on the subway with their legs spread?

A thought for today….