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# Are You Sitting Correctly?
- URL: https://goodoil.news/are-you-sitting-correctly/
- Published: 2019-07-20T04:30:06.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-20T06:33:18.000Z
- Author: WH
- Tags: Blog, Fun Stuff, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

If not, Laila Laurel has designed just the chair for you. If you are a man and are guilty of manspreading then she has the cure; if you are a woman and are guilty of not womanspreading then she has a chair for that as well.

Don’t laugh – she picked up a top award for the design. This is clearly an exciting solution to one of humankind’s greatest problems.

> Laila Laurel, 23, says she was inspired to create the chair, which makes use of two cleverly positioned bits of wood, following her own experiences of ‘manspreading’.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/manspread_chair1.png)

Obviously enjoying the experience

> If you’re unaware, ‘manspreading’ is the term used to describe when some fellas sit with their legs wide apart in public places, with a disregard for other people’s personal space. It became a talked-about phenomenon back in 2013 and has since even been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

> Laurel, who is set to graduate with a degree in 3D Design and Craft from the University of Brighton later this month, said: “It came both from my own experiences of men infringing on my space in public, and also from ‘The Everyday Sexism Project’, a website founded by Laura Bates in which women self-testify about sexism they experience.  
>  
> “With my chair set I hoped to draw awareness to the act of sitting for men and women and inspire discussion around this.”  
>  
> Her work has been awarded the Belmond Award for emerging talent, with a judging panel saying Laurel’s chair was ‘**a bold, purpose-driven design that explores the important role of design in informing space, a person’s behaviour and society issues of today**‘.

I presume it will also solve climate change, but that was not explicitly mentioned in the judges’ citation.

> The award looks for designs that show ‘imaginative and cleverly presented ideas with a considered overall look and feel along with the quality of work displayed’.  
>  
> Laurel, who is from Norwich, said: “I am completely shocked but very happy and honoured to have won the Belmond Award – and I am looking forward to designing with them this year.” \[…\]  
>  
> Laurel hasn’t stopped there with her chair designs either. She’s created a second seat intended for women, which encourages them to sit with their legs a little wider apart.  
>  
> [Ladbible](http://www.ladbible.com/news/interesting-woman-designs-chair-to-stop-manspreading-20190717?source=twitter)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/manspread_chair2.png)

There is a whole lot more beauty and functionality in the drainpipe than either of those ugly monstrosities.