Poll: Men with purses

[kickyourass]

If you honestly carry so much stuff in your day to day life that you need something like a purse to hold it all then go ahead. For me my pockets are more then enough, but I'm a particularly boring person so maybe it's just me.

Hell even if it's some kind of fashion thing instead of practicality go ahead, I'll likely never understand that particular decision but then I'm about as fashion consious as a dead seal.

 

[OtherSideofSky]

Yes, but other than coin purses (I use a tiny snap on made of specially dyed fabric from a small Japanese mountain town), purses are much less convenient than a small, nice looking (none of these things made for hiking, biking, or concealing a small elephant) shoulder or messenger bag, which can fulfill the same function at the same level of dressiness with a much more comfortable strap.

 

[Blow_Pop]

think wallets pretty much solved all mens problems with carrying ID and money so i dont see the point, what interests me is why women don't carry wallets since they always seem to be losing their shit. seriously fashion start giving women more pockets and less fucking dresses made of meat

Most women don't because wallets made for women aren't quite as functional and women like to match everything and it just doesn't occur to them. Those of us who don't carry those despicable things called purses because we don't need to carry everything and the kitchen sink with us usually have a wallet. Mine is attached to a chain that I hook onto my jeans. Also, if we want to carry wallets and don't want to carry purses we usually have to buy our clothes in the men's departments because the fashion industry finds it funny to give us pockets that we can maybe put a tube of chap stick in. So it's not that the fashion industry needs to give us more pockets, it's more it needs to stop with faux pockets and not functional pockets and give us actual functional pockets. I mean I'm not saying that they should be able to accommodate a paperback book in my back pocket like half my jeans from the boys section but they should at least accommodate a mobile phone of any size and a standard wallet and a pocket knife(oh wait that's right I'm of the small minority of females that carries one of those...shit).

Now, back to the topic at hand. Personally I don't care what someone of any gender decides to carry or wear. I mean I've been wearing men's clothes for over 10 years(because I prefer comfort and functionality over style and having to paint my clothes on my body) so why can't men wear "women's stuff" without being mocked. I feel like the people who do that have sever issues regarding their own sense of self. IF I carry anything it's usually a backpack and it's usually to carry water bottles and books.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

My older brother has what our family fondly refers to as a "man bag": a large-textbook-sized leather purse (that, to be fair, is not girly in any way). I say more power to any guys who want to carry a purse. I find mine quite convenient - I store most everything I ever may need in there, and the eclectic nature of what I carry has come in useful many a time. (Duct tape? I've got it. Graphing calculator? Yep, got it. Pen, pencil, and paper? Guess what... got it.)

 

[Radoh]

No, men shouldn't have purses, because NO ONE should have purses.
All a purse means to me is that this order is now going to take three times longer as rather than having the money/card/check book out and on hand they now need to spend the next thirty seconds to three minutes fishing around amongst assorted stuff looking for it so we can then proceed on through the transaction.
I work in retail, can you tell?

 

[lechat]

Spoiler

think wallets pretty much solved all mens problems with carrying ID and money so i dont see the point, what interests me is why women don't carry wallets since they always seem to be losing their shit. seriously fashion start giving women more pockets and less fucking dresses made of meat

Most women don't because wallets made for women aren't quite as functional and women like to match everything and it just doesn't occur to them. Those of us who don't carry those despicable things called purses because we don't need to carry everything and the kitchen sink with us usually have a wallet. Mine is attached to a chain that I hook onto my jeans. Also, if we want to carry wallets and don't want to carry purses we usually have to buy our clothes in the men's departments because the fashion industry finds it funny to give us pockets that we can maybe put a tube of chap stick in. So it's not that the fashion industry needs to give us more pockets, it's more it needs to stop with faux pockets and not functional pockets and give us actual functional pockets. I mean I'm not saying that they should be able to accommodate a paperback book in my back pocket like half my jeans from the boys section but they should at least accommodate a mobile phone of any size and a standard wallet and a pocket knife(oh wait that's right I'm of the small minority of females that carries one of those...shit).

Now, back to the topic at hand. Personally I don't care what someone of any gender decides to carry or wear. I mean I've been wearing men's clothes for over 10 years(because I prefer comfort and functionality over style and having to paint my clothes on my body) so why can't men wear "women's stuff" without being mocked. I feel like the people who do that have sever issues regarding their own sense of self. IF I carry anything it's usually a backpack and it's usually to carry water bottles and books.

we should get married
we can share the same wardrobe and i'll let you use my pocketknives!!!

 

[OtherSideofSky]

All of you people suggesting wallets clearly don't have many coins to deal with, because any wallet with a coin compartment big enough to hold more than a few is going to be too thick to comfortably fit in most pockets (excluding those of jackets, which are situational or weather-dependent). I've lived in countries where pretty much all day-to-day transactions are carried out in coins, and no wallet would ever have managed to hold the number I needed to have on me every day without getting torn or distorted. Also, carrying a wallet or other similarly-sized item in your pants pockets on a regular basis causes them to distort (and in the case of jeans to fade unevenly to match the outline of the object), which is always unsightly and effectively reduces the wearable lifespan of all your pants. Similarly, using the front pocket of a hooded sweatshirt will cause it to stretch down over time and appear baggier than it should be.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Spoiler

think wallets pretty much solved all mens problems with carrying ID and money so i dont see the point, what interests me is why women don't carry wallets since they always seem to be losing their shit. seriously fashion start giving women more pockets and less fucking dresses made of meat

Most women don't because wallets made for women aren't quite as functional and women like to match everything and it just doesn't occur to them. Those of us who don't carry those despicable things called purses because we don't need to carry everything and the kitchen sink with us usually have a wallet. Mine is attached to a chain that I hook onto my jeans. Also, if we want to carry wallets and don't want to carry purses we usually have to buy our clothes in the men's departments because the fashion industry finds it funny to give us pockets that we can maybe put a tube of chap stick in. So it's not that the fashion industry needs to give us more pockets, it's more it needs to stop with faux pockets and not functional pockets and give us actual functional pockets. I mean I'm not saying that they should be able to accommodate a paperback book in my back pocket like half my jeans from the boys section but they should at least accommodate a mobile phone of any size and a standard wallet and a pocket knife(oh wait that's right I'm of the small minority of females that carries one of those...shit).

Now, back to the topic at hand. Personally I don't care what someone of any gender decides to carry or wear. I mean I've been wearing men's clothes for over 10 years(because I prefer comfort and functionality over style and having to paint my clothes on my body) so why can't men wear "women's stuff" without being mocked. I feel like the people who do that have sever issues regarding their own sense of self. IF I carry anything it's usually a backpack and it's usually to carry water bottles and books.

we should get married
we can share the same wardrobe and i'll let you use my pocketknives!!!

You've obviously never seen my collection of sword, daggers, and pocketknives. (and yes sword is meant to be singular not plural as I only have one at the moment)

Spoiler

even though my hair is doing lord knows what.....i kind of look like a cross dressing beatle hair wise.....I did a photo shoot with my blades the other day..well my swords and daggers.....those plus others are all on my deviantart.

and all my weaponry images are all here:
http://aprilmarie4203.deviantart.com/gallery/41532653
Soon as I find all of my knives I'll do a set with my knives and probably my other corset. or not. not sure yet.

And lovely offer but I'm determined to be single for the rest of my life because dating sucks and blah blah blah. Point being I just want meaningless sex and I'm happy with that as long as I have my friendships.

 

[Lonewolfm16]

I'm quite proud of being a "manly man" and have no shame in being labelled a *nazi* or *sexist* if it means I get to mock blokes walking round with purses.

The same way I mock blokes that wear pink.

So basically if it means you get to mock others, you don't care about the vorracity or sexist implications of your views? That seems... belligerant and stupid.

 

[Rawne1980]

So basically if it means you get to mock others, you don't care about the vorracity or sexist implications of your views? That seems... belligerant and stupid.

I mock people anyway but i'm sure your oh so "cutting" remark will touch me deeply and completely change my way of thinking.

In 32 years of walking the earth, it took this one forum poster to make me see the error of my ways, oh how blind I have been.

However, I would look up what voracity means, I don't think it means what you think it means. I doubt my appetite or eagerness for activities have anything to do with "the implications of my views".

1.
craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
2.
exceedingly eager or avid: voracious readers; a voracious collector.

I know folk here like to throw big words around in the hope they seem intelligent but half the time they are completely out of context or just plain wrong.

Much like your use of belligerent. That means to be hostile where as mocking and banter are not hostile. Out right abuse and bullying would be but not mocking. But i'm sure you will tell me there is no difference because you are ever so obviously intellectually superior while looking down on the world from that moral pedestal you placed yourself on.

And now i'll wait for this to get reported because "what, he's now mocking ME .... how very dare he" and some folk can't stand banter but are ever so quick to throw snide remarks at others.

The worlds a funny old place.

 

[Lonewolfm16]

So basically if it means you get to mock others, you don't care about the vorracity or sexist implications of your views? That seems... belligerant and stupid.

I mock people anyway but i'm sure your oh so "cutting" remark will touch me deeply and completely change my way of thinking.

In 32 years of walking the earth, it took this one forum poster to make me see the error of my ways, oh how blind I have been.

However, I would look up what voracity means, I don't think it means what you think it means. I doubt my appetite or eagerness for activities have anything to do with "the implications of my views".

1.
craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
2.
exceedingly eager or avid: voracious readers; a voracious collector.

I know folk here like to throw big words around in the hope they seem intelligent but half the time they are completely out of context or just plain wrong.

Much like your use of belligerent. That means to be hostile where as mocking and banter are not hostile. Out right abuse and bullying would be but not mocking. But i'm sure you will tell me there is no difference because you are ever so obviously intellectually superior while looking down on the world from that moral pedestal you placed yourself on.

And now i'll wait for this to get reported because "what, he's now mocking ME .... how very dare he" and some folk can't stand banter but are ever so quick to throw snide remarks at others.

The worlds a funny old place.

I do not apprieciate the sarcasm. I do, however, apprieiate the correction. I meant veracity not voracity. A unfortunate misspelling. At any rate I feel beligerant is fairly appropriate. Mocking someone is fairly hostile. Not as hostile as other things but still hostile. I just don't see why you need to go along being unneccassarily rude. If someone wants to do something, and it harms no one and helps them then allow them. And choosing what you are allowed to do and still be considered socially acceptable based on a meaningless thing like gender is not simply foolish. How does whether you have a x or a y chromosome and what kind of genetalia you have in any way relate to having a handbag of some description? Why should we restrict simple and useful things like handbags and purses and the like to one gender? And how does one earn scorn and mocking merely for carrying something that members of his gender do not usually carry? It just seems like a rediculous thing to mock. I don't see why you need to be rude about someones choice to carry a purse or the like. Besides then, mocking people in general seems fairly pointless. Why cause unneccassary pain and hurt for breif satisfaction? Why antagonize and make enemies of people who might otherwise be friendly to you? There are plenty of things deserving of mocking but innocuous choices like carrying a purse hardly seems to rank among them. Surely if we agreed that such things are childish and unneccassary we could improve the world, ever so slightly, could we not?

 

[PirateRose]

Between my cellphone, my PSP, my wallet, and little paper notebook, I don't understand how guys can go without some kind of bag like thing to carry around. Then again, they don't really design women's pants with very big pockets, let alone very many of them. There is this really weird trend going on where the pants have fake pockets. It's just a design sewn on the pants that looks like a pocket but there's no opening and no little fabric pouch. I really hate those and don't understand why any woman would wear them.

 

[kortin]

I have an old bionicle container that I keep on my desk that I throw all the change I get into. I only ever pay with bills, so I'm basically collecting coins. Last I counted I had like $4.16 in change in the thing.

 

[Rawne1980]

I do not apprieciate the sarcasm. I do, however, apprieiate the correction. I meant veracity not voracity. A unfortunate misspelling. At any rate I feel beligerant is fairly appropriate. Mocking someone is fairly hostile. Not as hostile as other things but still hostile. I just don't see why you need to go along being unneccassarily rude. If someone wants to do something, and it harms no one and helps them then allow them. And choosing what you are allowed to do and still be considered socially acceptable based on a meaningless thing like gender is not simply foolish. How does whether you have a x or a y chromosome and what kind of genetalia you have in any way relate to having a handbag of some description? Why should we restrict simple and useful things like handbags and purses and the like to one gender? And how does one earn scorn and mocking merely for carrying something that members of his gender do not usually carry? It just seems like a rediculous thing to mock. I don't see why you need to be rude about someones choice to carry a purse or the like. Besides then, mocking people in general seems fairly pointless. Why cause unneccassary pain and hurt for breif satisfaction? Why antagonize and make enemies of people who might otherwise be friendly to you? There are plenty of things deserving of mocking but innocuous choices like carrying a purse hardly seems to rank among them. Surely if we agreed that such things are childish and unneccassary we could improve the world, ever so slightly, could we not?

Okay, i'll go with less sarcasm.

But you do seem to be mistaking mocking with abuse.

I don't go full on abusing people but mocking is something i've always done. I mock myself, I mock others and I mock things.

I don't do so in a hurtful or aggressive way, it's what we like to call "playful banter". I know where to draw the line before it gets to the stage of upsetting someone, i've had plenty of practice. It's just who I am.

 

[Lonewolfm16]

I do not apprieciate the sarcasm. I do, however, apprieiate the correction. I meant veracity not voracity. A unfortunate misspelling. At any rate I feel beligerant is fairly appropriate. Mocking someone is fairly hostile. Not as hostile as other things but still hostile. I just don't see why you need to go along being unneccassarily rude. If someone wants to do something, and it harms no one and helps them then allow them. And choosing what you are allowed to do and still be considered socially acceptable based on a meaningless thing like gender is not simply foolish. How does whether you have a x or a y chromosome and what kind of genetalia you have in any way relate to having a handbag of some description? Why should we restrict simple and useful things like handbags and purses and the like to one gender? And how does one earn scorn and mocking merely for carrying something that members of his gender do not usually carry? It just seems like a rediculous thing to mock. I don't see why you need to be rude about someones choice to carry a purse or the like. Besides then, mocking people in general seems fairly pointless. Why cause unneccassary pain and hurt for breif satisfaction? Why antagonize and make enemies of people who might otherwise be friendly to you? There are plenty of things deserving of mocking but innocuous choices like carrying a purse hardly seems to rank among them. Surely if we agreed that such things are childish and unneccassary we could improve the world, ever so slightly, could we not?

Okay, i'll go with less sarcasm.

But you do seem to be mistaking mocking with abuse.

I don't go full on abusing people but mocking is something i've always done. I mock myself, I mock others and I mock things.

I don't do so in a hurtful or aggressive way, it's what we like to call "playful banter". I know where to draw the line before it gets to the stage of upsetting someone, i've had plenty of practice. It's just who I am.

Still a little petty... but I can appreciate that. A little friendly ribbing is pretty much ok in my book, as long as its not hurtful.

 

[Rawne1980]

Still a little petty... but I can appreciate that. A little friendly ribbing is pretty much ok in my book, as long as its not hurtful.

Oh it's certainly petty I won't deny that, there is probably far more productive things I can do with my time than ribbing folk.

But no, I never let it get to the stage of hurtful, it's always in a friendly manner.

There isn't much I take seriously so friendly banter is something that happens on a regular basis. It's much more fun when they throw a bit back as well, more laughs is always good.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

So...why doesn't the OP just buy a wallet with a coin pocket?

 

[Not Matt]

I agree. I always break my pockets and lose stuff in them. I want A adamn purse (but call it something else place. Don't like the word purse) but I have learned now that society won't let me have what I want. Maybe someone could invent a sort of purse for men that you can strap to your body (no not like back pack or fannypack)

 

[DementedSheep]

Yes. Call it a bag if you can?t bear the thought being associated with something seen as womanly. I seriously don?t get guys issues with purses. It just a small practical bag (or not so small) to carry shit in when your out. Its more secure and you can fit more in it than pockets.