"The false biology of manspreading"

"Manspreading is something that we don’t see cross-culturally (here’s a scholarly article from the 1950s that shows that even back then, knees-together sitting occured at different frequencies in different cultures). Only a certain type of dudebro or man-man manspreads...

As an anthropologist, I luckily know that biology is not quite so simple as “have this skeleton = do this behavior”. McGill suggests that a person’s biology determines the behaviors they are capable of doing (for example, martial arts, dancing, weightlifting, or manspreading). Instead there is good evidence that repeated behaviors (which could include martial arts, dancing, weightlifting, or manspreading) train muscles and remodel bone to accommodate those behaviors."

https://medium.com/@cvans/the-false-biology-of-manspreading-f789abd709f5

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