DC Metro exec apologizes after posting a photo of a man's crotch on her Twitter, asking: 'Do we really need to do a manspreading campaign on our trains?!'
- After being slammed as a 'creeper', Washington Metro Area Transit Authority Chief Experience Officer Sarah Meyer apologized
- Fresh off a failed stint as the MTA's first 'chief customer officer,' Meyer, 39, acknowledged she made mistake Tuesday - less than 24 hours after tweeting
- Now deleted, the image showed a man - presumably on his way home from work on the DC Metro - in a shirt, tie and khakis sitting while taking up two seats
A high-ranking DC transit official has apologized after posting an invasive photo of a subway rider's crotch and accusing him of taking up seats by 'manspreading'.
Sarah Meyer, 39, 'chief experience officer' for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, was branded a 'creeper' for sharing the image of the man's crotch.
Fresh off a failed stint as the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) first 'chief customer officer,' Manhattan native Meyer admitted hours later that she made a mistake by posting the image Tuesday.
It showed a man, with his face cropped out, riding on his work commute with his jacket on the seat next to him and his legs spread out - dubbed 'manspreading.'
Meyer captioned the post: 'DC, do we really need to do a manspreading campaign on our trains?! I thought we were above this.'
A high-ranking Washington, DC, transit official who resigned from the MTA last year is receiving hate for posting a photo of a subway rider 'manspreading' - and sharing a photo of the man's crotch to get her point across
Now being slammed as a 'creeper' for the pointed post, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Chief Experience Officer Sarah Meyer, 39, has since apologized
Within minutes, several commenters were quick to point out how the photo was invasive and served as a poor substitution for the actual work taxpayers in the municipality expect her to do.
'Why are you taking pictures of a stranger's crotch and posting it to social media?' sniped conservative commentator Matt Walsh, a columnist at the Daily Wire.
Others pointed out how the number of aggravated assaults at DC Metro facilities has nearly doubled from 2018 to 2022, with robberies and larcenies on the rise since 2020 as well.
Someone else simply remarked: 'Metro's 'chief experience officer' is a creeper.'
The mass of negative attention quickly saw the tweet scrubbed, not by Meyer, but by Twitter itself.
Moderators wrote the post was pulled because it violated the website's rules
A few hours later, Meyer - who was raking in an annual salary of $221,517 when she resigned from the MTA last summer - apologized for the post after facing a storm of backlash less than three months into her new gig.
A former exec for the MTA and a posh NYC marketing firm, Sarah Meyer had been named Chief Experience Officer for the Washington, D.C., Metro
Within minutes, several commenters were quick to point out how the photo was invasive and creepy, and served as a poor substitution for the actual work taxpayers in the municipality expect her to do
Meyer's 'manspreading' claim harked back to her checkered past in New York City - where the term is used widely by internet savants to aptly describe when men splay their legs about while sitting on public transportation.
Her four year tenure as the MTA's first-ever chief customer officer was riddled with similar attempts to sway the public with internet lingo on social media, instead of addressing the city's prevailing crime problem on its subway system.
Poached from a posh marketing firm where she served as senior vice president, the then 34-year-old was instantly gifted a more than $200,000 salary
Less than a year into her tenure, the pandemic hit - seeing her come under fire for failing to tackle riders concerns over crime and homelessness.
Instead, the authority employee strived for an increased presence on social media, making jokey posts about OMNY (a contactless fare payment system) and other new technologies as the historic subway system languished.
Eventually - before conceding to the New York Times that the city's homelessness, drug addiction, poverty, crime problems were unsolvable - she resigned, taking on her current role more than a year later.
If she doesn't have testicles that are going to be pushed together when her legs are closed, then she really has no idea why men sit with their legs spread.
Women who complain about manspreading are only betraying their lack of familiarity with male anatomy.
Men get why we sit like this, women like this don't know a man's biology. go look at a diagram.
Any wagers she is a democrat?
It's no fun to have your testicles squeezed between your legs. A little space is needed sometimes.
The reason for adopting the more spread posture in sitting is the avoidance of testicular compression.
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