The passenger posted the photo of her squashed in her seat onto Reddit (Picture: EmilyKauai / Reddit)

A woman was left outraged after a fellow plane passenger ‘manspread’ onto her own seat, leaving her with no room.

The female flyer, who is 5’8″, posted on Reddit to show how she was completely squashed by a man who was relaxing his legs onto her seat.

The man’s legs were even touching hers, and his arm was taking up one of the armrests.

Writing alongside the image, the woman said: ‘This was how my entire four-hour flight went today. I am a 5’8″ female.’

However not everyone is on her side, with some people pointing out that tall men often do not have a choice.

One said: ‘I’m 6’4″, I have to sit in the aisle seat, handicap seats, or emergency row only.

‘There simply isn’t enough room for people with longer legs unless we do the split like this and that’s generally just rude to encroach on people.’

Others also asked why the woman did not just ask the man to move his legs, but the woman told commenters she did.

She wrote: ‘A couple times I mentioned it, and he would move over, but his legs would casually return to where they rested during his movie.’

Others agreed the ‘rude’ passenger should have made more room for his fellow passenger.

‘Not only was he manspreading but he also took the entire armrest,’ one commenter said, to which the poster replied: ‘For the entire plane ride too.’

A second said: ‘Look at his thigh to knee length in relation to her. He is shorter! His legs are shorter!

‘He’s encroaching because he is a Neanderthal, not because he is too tall for the seat!’

Others were looking to blame the airline for having such small seats.

‘It’s horrible what the airlines have done to the seats,’ one said. ‘No room, no recline, and no comfort.’

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Some argued the man had to spread his legs as he is ‘too tall’.