A female airline passenger was left outraged after being crushed between not one but two men who invaded her personal space during a flight.
Erin Rempel posted the video showing herself in the middle seat of a Flair plane on a two-hour flight from Edmonton to Winnipeg, Canada.
The clip showed the legs of the men on either side of her touching her, both of them heavily invading her space.
“Why would anyone need that much space?” she furiously captioned the clip.
“I tried to get her to move, but she wouldn’t,” added Erin, who works as a model and stylist.
Content creator Erin Rempel posted the video, which shows her in the middle seat of an airplane, with the legs of the men next to her touching hers, strongly invading her space.
In the 17-second video, Erin awkwardly attempted to move her legs, but was blocked by the men sitting on either side of her with their legs spread wide.
Towards the end of the clip, one of the men begins to push her leg back in retaliation.
Erin had written ‘Female Rage’ on the video.
Commenters were furious with Erin, who is 6ft 2in, and said she should have rejected the manspreaders.
“Girl, you have to say something. There’s no need to be so exaggerated. If you’re nervous, call a flight attendant,” one of them insisted.
“DID YOU EVEN CLOSE IT WHEN YOU MOVED IN?” wrote another incredulous user.
“Absolutely not. I would have been immediately furious,” another shared.
“Look, I understand the arguments of the top executives. My husband is six feet tall, but he reserves extra legroom,” wrote another user. “And if for some reason he can’t, he without fail mentions it, demonstrates his difficulty, and apologizes profusely for it.”
In the 17-second video, posted on TikTok, Erin awkwardly attempted to move her legs, but the men sitting on either side of her blocked them and held them apart (file image)
Last year, a commercial pilot told DailyMail.com that the correct way to sit on a plane is “orderly”, with your arms and legs in front of you.
However, one traveler revealed on Reddit that he didn’t follow this rule and spread his ‘long legs’ in an attempt to get comfortable, which offended his neighbor.
The 26-year-old male passenger explained that he was sandwiched between two women on a six-hour flight with Spirit Airlines and “about a half-hour after takeoff, I felt my left knee shift to the side in search of the sweet relief of open space — specifically, the no-man’s land between the seats, at the level of the shared armrest.”
He continued: “But I didn’t pay attention to my knee the whole time. I admit that it’s possible that at some point I was taking up the space that rightfully belonged to my window seat neighbor.”
For about two hours, the Redditor said “everything was fine,” but then the situation escalated when the woman in the window seat called over a flight attendant.
The passenger then asked: ‘Could you tell him to keep his damn leg on his own damn seat?’
To her ‘horror’, the man said he realised she was talking about him and ‘instantly retracted’ his leg in ‘deep embarrassment’.
When the flight attendant left, the passenger said he “started frantically apologizing,” but his neighbor refused to talk to him and pretended not to hear him.
His other neighbor said she had some extra space on her side that he could use, “but then he went to sleep right away.”
The man explained that he “went from embarrassed to confused” because he did not understand why the woman in the window seat had not asked him to move his knee instead of calling the cabin crew.
He concluded: “She ignored me for the rest of the flight and I ignored her. I got a good but painful workout for the muscles that hold my knees together.”
After posting about the airplane seat disaster, the man was criticized by other Reddit contributors.
Many felt his actions were “selfish” and said he should have reserved extra legroom if he knew he would be uncomfortable.