Quentin Letts accuses the women revolting over 'manspreading' on trains of being hypocrites

Article here. Excerpt:

'Chaps, we are under attack. It is time to man (and I mean ‘man’) the defences. In yesterday’s Femail magazine, writer Ginny Dougary accused us of space-hogging — of taking up too much room, particularly in railway carriages.

The problem has become so common that the Oxford Dictionary now has an approved term for it: ‘Manspreading’.

Ginny described (with, it has to be said, rather brilliant gusto) how men plonk themselves down on train seats and thrust wide their beefy thighs. She was so fed up with this behaviour that she was declaring war. Her article was illustrated by a photograph of one man sitting beside three women. Whereas the ladies sat with their knees together or petitely crossed, selfish old Captain Groin had his upper legs as wide as a skier’s snowplough.

As with many gross slanders, Ginny’s article contained a grain or two of truth. Yet that picture was by no means ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’.

If it had been, it would have shown certain other objects, would it not? It would have shown the women’s clutter.

Where were their numerous handbags? Where were their coats and wheelie-cases and Filofaxes and half-full Costa coffee cups with smears of lipstick on the rim? And where, if you can illustrate such a chirruping nuisance, was their incessant, temple-denting chatter?'

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Wikipedia on Quentin Letts here.