Posted on 12/10/2006 9:19:14 AM PST by 3AngelaD
Ah, yes, the gift-giving season. So what to get for the contemporary fellow who has everything? The Man Bag. The Man Bag is a high-style satchel -- a purse, though its creators hate when you call it that. It's designed to hold the modern man's wallet, keys, sunglasses, iPod, cell phone, body spray, hair goop, diary and whatever other junk he totes around these days. Why was the Man Bag created? As it goes, three fellows -- Brian, Peter and Thai -- "were tired of being ribbed for carrying their gadgets around in hand bags. The torment reached a boiling point one night when Thai was called a 'pursey' at a party." That fellow who insulted him was lucky Thai didn't have a sturdy Man Bag to smack him with. ... Which is precisely the problem. Modern guys don't want to be like their dads -- masculine fellows who defined themselves by their actions, not their high style, fellows like my father the Big Guy. The Big Guy has long known that if a thing doesn't fit into a man's pockets he shouldn't be carrying it. He carries his keys in his right front pocket. He carries his change in both pockets, so he can dangle it with both hands while shooting the bull with the butcher, the mechanic and anybody else he encounters in daily life. The Big Guy's wallet is what a real man's wallet should be -- thick, fat and worn. It holds only the basic items a man needs to get through life: license, money and a yellowed photo of my mother from 1953. He keeps his wallet in his right-rear pocket....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
It is not "manly" to carry a man bag. yuck! A brief case if you have a reason to, but please men, if you have any male pride, don't carry a man bag.
"It's not a purse. It's European."
Uh, your "Man Bag" is being critiqued...
One word: GAY
If you can't fit your wallet, keyes, knife, and phone in your pants, you need bigger pants, not a purse.
If you're carring anything else, put it in your 3-day assault pack..
...ever since "sensitive" men, were supposed to "explore their "f'weeling".....its' been goin' downhill ever since. :((
This is why men's sportcoats have lots of inside pockets. If someone has enough money to buy a 'man bag' he can get himself a nice sportcoat instead.
I thought we all needed a laugh today. For the record, I am anti-manbag. There is something Seinfeldinan about this whole thing. I see Kramer (pre-nutjob Kramer) discussing this with George and George's father.
Men already have two. That should be all that they need.
(Please, Don't ever tell my mother that I just wrote that!!)
Matt Lauer wears a man purse..case closed.
How about a backpack? Simple solution.
Laura Ingraham calls this item a 'murse'. Me, I would not carry something like this unless it contained a large firearm.
ah yes, the feminization of America- the sissification of society- We're almost htere folks- this crap is being foisted on our kids in schools too- I swear if anyone tried carrying one of htose around here they'd get the crap kicked out of them- kinda hard to be a logger & factory worker when you're burdened by a gay bag- ooops- excuse me- man bag. http://sacredscoop.com
That's a backpack. Sheesh.
I've got a battered assault pack I picked up at the PX on Camp Victory, and it's great to leave in the car with a change of clothes, a shaving kit, and other essentials. Or to take hiking, to a concert or other outdoor event, if you're bringing a camera, GPS, some food and drinks, etc. Very handy, and no one's going to give you any man-purse looks about it.
I thought a "m'urse" was a male nurse. Oh, my...semantics are gonna' kill us.
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Perhaps. I prefer female nurses. Ducking now.
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