Manbags: what are they? C oder D?

That depends on how small it really is. Pics please?

http://i19.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/fd/25/0d31_1.JPG

possssibly. though i think it's big enough to pass, though it's hard to tell. what are approx. dimensions?

yes the picture is misleading. Big enough for a 7" single but not a 12"

My boyfriend bought a satchel at H&M and our hair dresser called it his purse! :( It pissed him off to the point that he may not go back there, and she is the awesome woman who makes my hair red and orange so I can't stop - this is going to be awkward.

I'm sympathetic but that seems kind of...butthurt, as ILX would say. Does he usually pick you up from there or something?

No, she's his hairdresser too.. she works out of her home and we go together 'cause we're silly like that. In addition to her comment, he also gets relegated to waiting downstairs with her husband & toddlers while my own hair is done - he likes the kids and the husband isn't a total douche or anything but A says he sometimes watches the TV more than the kids and A ends up watching the kids. But seriously, why insult a client? She's also like fat positive queer friendly lalala all that and throws a subtle gay criticism at my boyfriend?

that's a hot bag, baad

was she like, "nice purse, you gay?" or something along those lines?

"Ooh look at your new purse!" in a mocking tone (with another client in the room) right when we walked in and said hello! :P Perhaps gay criticism wasn't the right word to use but I've never heard of a man carrying a purse who wasn't implied to be a cross-dresser. So not a gay joke per se but my point is I CAN'T DO THAT AT MY JOB, why should anyone feel OK to do so? :(

You...can't? Tease people?

you have to know who you can tease.

I um I can't imagine cross-dressing coming into it anywhere. The suggestion/implication of effeminacy, yeah, sure, but that's kind of the joke, I'm assuming.

But cross-dressing is something else completely, and frankly I think a lot of men who do it are straight...?

I mean, it's nothing but a simple black bag that he carries his UNIFORM in to go work his union job at the train station! He was getting his hair cut then going straight to work.

okay Laurel we obviously aren't seeing this the same way. If I tried telling one of the clients who showed up at my office that I liked their purse I'd probably get reminded of what professional means.

i can totally understand

Yeah, I guess you had to be there.

well yeah Laurel, that's why I said "not a gay joke" after explaining that I guess it was really implying he was a cross-dresser (and what else would you call a man who carries/uses a woman's item? I don't think effeminate comes into play here, he's not a feminine person at all..)

Hence........the joke?

Well whatever, the issue at this point is obv that he's upset about it. So now what?

obviously I tease my friends, families, co-workers and stuff, I feel the need to add, and I feel no need for any person to kow-tow to a person just because they are wavign a fifty dollar bill around but there's still a line where you don't act like an asshole if you expect to get paid!

that said, she didn't say shit to me and I like her hair dressing skills, just can't stand her personality now, and the awkward part comes if I go back and she asks why he didn't/where he is/etc, since we usually would book two appointments back to back.

let's get back on track here: lol baaderonixx bought a manbag

some people really don't like anything about their sexuality questioned in the workplace. i can speak from experience.

maybe next time she pulls out the razor to cut my bangs I will be all "hey is that the one you shave your moustache with?" to even the score and make all people feel happier

i mean, unless you're really comfortable with the client in that sense, remarks like that are best left unsaid.

hahahahaaaaa yes

I don't get the whole manbag drama to begin with. When you don't drive a car and you gotta take your shit with you all day long, what else do you put it in? An attache case? Srsly does your entire life come from LL Bean, or are you just 65 years old? Messenger bags are one choice but I can see how they have their own perils of dumbness. Why shouldn't men carry bags for their stuff?

preachin to the choir!

yeah Surmounter.. he and I've both done our various experimentations in the past but to be mocked for any item you're carrying, especially one that has a purpose... "hey that's a nice SCARF there, why don't you get some THICKER BLOOD to keep warm" ... it's not so much the sexuality questioning (as I said, much more cross dresser than gay implication) but the unnecessary need to insult randomly. I think some people just have this trait in them, and my boyfriend doesn't. I fall somewhere in between by being largely self-depcrecating. I wouldn't have given her the chance to insult my bag! ;)

what would you call the little totebag used to carry around records? record bag?

"it's european!"

http://blog.muchmusic.com/archives/jerry%20purse.jpg

Like for instance I will make fun of my lame typing. LOL depcrecating.

xxpost hahaha HI DERE nicely done. loser!

i carry: a planner, wallet, cigarettes, my big-ass phone, some pens, a compact and lipstuff. i need a bag.

lol seinfeld

I can only imagine if he'd skipped the man bag and just worn his UNIFORM to her place!

The only men's bags I really hate are the briefcase style with a rigid dowel through the top so they're shaped like a tent from the side. For some reason that silhouette bothers me. It seems...unfriendly. Not made to be carried by humans. I don't know.

http://www.nike.com/index.jhtml?l=nikestore,pdp,_pdp,cid-1/gid-145079/pid-145079

My brother gave me one of these in chocolate brown and gold. Almost every gay male friend I have has told me that it is the most staggeringly gay bag they've seen. lol

fucking adorable

xxp Why, is his uniform garters and a bustier?

hahahah yes actually! If by bustier you mean standard issue blue dress pants, shirt, tie, vest with train company logo. I'm sure that would have been dorky/keen or earned him some sort of Shining Time Station joke.

I don't know what a Shining Time Station is but your bf is a train conductor? That's interesting, I've always wondered a bit about that job.

Or any jobs on trains, really. We don't really have much rail transport in the Midwest, I'm kind of fascinated by it on the East Coast.

he works in the station, not as a conductor. It's a union job and he's bilingual so he pretty much earns more per hour than I can ever hope to! :P Plus free train rides across Canada for himself and his spouse :D

where do you live that you haven't heard of STS? I thought it was a fairly worldwide phenomenon. Ringo Starr and George Carlin both starred at separate times as the conductor at a train station with a talking train. Pretty ridiculous but you know, fun.

Working in the rail industry is pretty much 99% great customer service (think of being on a train that's five hours late, coming into the station at 3am... to a NICE PURSE! heh) hence the butthurtitude.

ohman i always have to have some kind of bag or purse with me and wonder how men go without. but my brother seems to have a bag with him at all times too and it's full of random stuff - a friend who lives in the same city as him was telling me this wkend how my bro saved her son's birthday party by having random fix-it stuff in his bag (knife, lighter, string, masking tape) like his bag is all timelord science or soemthing

p.s. the guys i know who have bags mostly have bike messenger style bags or backpacks, not leather manbags

LOL that reminds me that the other day I was on Wikipedia and there is a page listing all the things MacG has fixed, and with what.

What can I say, I didn't watch enough TV as a child.

I've always had a big ol' messenger bag but at some point I thought it was stupid to carry such a big thing just to put my cigarettes and my phone, hence random ebay manbag folly. Now whether I will actaully use this is another matter

It's okay Laurel, for a second I thought you were some Italian countess or something, too bad you brought up the midwest! ;)

I am pretty much a Michigan poster child except I left there and I'm not going back. Also these days I do try not to dress like the natives.

I was in line behind someone in the pharmacy at Union Sq last night who was explaining that she's not used to all the people and the busy-ness of New York because she's from a smaller, quieter place. I couldn't help thinking "Yes, I could tell by the cargo pedal-pushers and that sweatshirt tied around your waist."

hahaha I don't blame you for not wanting to go back! My bf and I drove from Toronto to go see Modest Mouse for my 25th birthday last year in of all places Wisconsin. We drove as quickly through Michigan as was possible. I did enjoy the gigantic roadside signs with the golden arches etc on the fifty foot poles though.

Your story reminds me of the Sex and the City scrunchie gag with Rob whatshisface from Office Space!

a man bag is a bag a man carries with a shoulder strap

it is another indication of the ridiculousness of our age that a man now needs to carry more shit with him everywhere than can fit in his pockets

I often resent my man bag

So dude has a purse AND a hairdresser AND is sensitive about getting teased?

I have 3 or 4 gas mask bags that qualify as manbags. They carry CDs and cameras and the like and they rule.

Looks like the Nike bags above can be customized:

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And a better haircut than yours, Kerm.

Looks like the Nike bags above can be customized:

Yes, they can. Mine has "DJP BEST MAN" monogrammed on the inside pocket.

major, major accomplishment there. xp