http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/28/manspreading-men-oxford-dictionary-sitting-position-gendered
This article, written by Zoe Jewell, is about the term 'manspreading' being added to the online version of the Oxford English dictionary. This caused a lot of controversy because the lexis is gender specific to males when woman can participate in the same activity without having women prefixed compounds.
The term 'manspreading' just means to sit with your legs open so that you're spread out. Jewell mentions that this is stereotyped to men and that it is often unfeminine for a woman to do such a thing which is why she expresses her anger in this article.
The point of the article is that men seem to have lexis with man prefixes for activities which are not gender specific and is being highlighted as wrong.
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