In this week's comments update, readers are debating whether a chair designed to prevent "manspreading" provokes healthy discussion or encourages gender discrimination.
Ballsy move: Brighton University graduate Laila Laurel has caused uproar with her design for a tongue-in-cheek chair that aims to offer a solution to "manspreading".
"How about we have an anti-womanspreading chair," suggested Dave. "One that makes it impossible for women to put their handbags on the empty seat next to them""
Jon continued: "In order to combat the sexist issues faced by women, the designer has created a chair that directly discriminates against men by making it inherently uncomfortable" The hypocrisy is astonishing." "The first to comment here about how ridiculous, un-feminist, anti-men this chair is are the same who cry about not being able to say anything anymore and about women not getting jokes," replied Justine. "And you don?t even have to deal with the wave of, 'it?s just a joke! Calm down woman'."
St. Ar agreed: "This is hilarious and totally nailed its purpose. To the guys being super upset: the aim of this design was to offend you. What, don't you have any sense of humour" :)"
This reader was open-minded:

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