I’m working on a longer post about you-know-who. In the meantime, enjoy these goats doing their best interpretation of the Men’s Rights movement.
But wait, there’s more!
And while we’re at it, here are some baby alpacas trying to figure out what a puppy is:
Remember how men look for women with symmetrical faces, because it’s a sign of good health? (well, I mean, not really, but in evo-psych land)
Well, the wallet makes you a-symmetrical.
And men are the logical sex, right, so we look for healthy people.
Women look for lop-sided butts, because they’re the opposite of men, and therefore anti-logical.
You see? SCIENCE! That’s why women love men with big wallets.
I pick handbags based on book sizes, so I have some smaller bags (suitable for phone/wallet/keys/paperback), some medium bags (same but enough room to fit a trade or small hardcover) and a BIG bag (used only for Stephen King epics in hardcovers basically). At least when male acquaintances make the usual jokes about “What do women need these big purses for hurr hurr?” it’s slightly funny when I open the bag, take out a huge book and PLONK it down with a straight face.
You know, even if guys don’t want to deal with the patriarchy induced stigma of carrying a purse, there are still plenty of options that don’t involve having to sit on their wallet. Backpacks, messenger bags, briefcases, tool belts, cargo pants, duffel bags… Heck, I use an old gameboy carrier as a ‘purse’ on days when I don’t need to take my laptop with me.
The wallet/billfold thing has confused more than one Yankee.
Nine-year-old me got confused while reading Prince Caspian. Caspian’s mentor decides it’s time to go when C’s uncle starts murderizing the royal family, so the text describes him loading food into a wallet. I came up short, thinking, how do you fold a cheese?
And later, when I was spending four months in France in college, we were reading Stendahl’s Le Rouge et Le Noir (in English), and the protagonist is described as carrying a purse, leading one of the leading lights of the bro faction to conclude the guy was a “f*****.”
<blockquote.But why carry them all the time? I put only the stuff I know I’ll need in my tiny wallet/credit card holder.
Lassitude, and the fear that I might lose something I need if I remove it from the wallet.
‘Sprobably time for another pruning. I know I’ve got an expired gift card in there.
Oh, and my health insurance card is as important as my driver’s license, even though my health coverage is teh suxx0rs. I sit in a one-ton vehicle and rocket along at 50 mph at least twice a day, most days. It’s a wonder I’ve survived this long.
Ew.
For some reason, wallet and phone in my right pocket, keys, chapstick and any flash/thumb/pen drives in my left. Then I carry groceries or books in my left hand, requiring some juggling when I need to unlock a door.
The biggest bag I carry is just a book bag. I usually use it on my way to game night, and I load up ALL THE BOOKS in it because I’m anal.
CURSE D&D for having three core rulebooks.
Three out of four ain’t bad.
I once found some little thing with a strap and a front pocket, and a belt loop, to carry my Gameboy in. This was an old-school ‘boy, mind, as big as a brick with a two-inch, four-shades-of-gray screen that ran on four AAs (how universal is the AA battery? Anybody here need a link?). I could fit six of its humongous carts in the front pocket and wedge a couple more in the main pocket with the ‘boy.
@Podkayne
Yes, those jokers are annoying. I extrapolate that they are probably not geeks, because most geeks could understand a need for a bag that could carry books, DVDs, laptops, cords, gaming systems, notebooks, art supplies, lunch…
My pockets are starting to get overloaded. Too much electronics, too much stuff. No good solution in the future. I may have to get some kind of bag to carry around with me.
I tend to find wallets/bags that I like for aesthetic reasons, and then adapt to their size. For a while I had the world’s tiniest backpack, so pretty much all I carried was my wallet, though in a pinch I could fit a netbook or iPad in there awkwardly. I bought my current favorite purse because it reminded me of a bowling bag; it’s not massive, but I can easily fit my wallet, ebook reader, iPad, travel umbrella, lipbalm, phone, bus card, etc. (My sister always carries what I call her Mary Poppins bag, a huge thing which contains every single thing she would need to survive 2 weeks alone in the Himalayas, or a day at work in New Haven.)
My wallet is a lovely thing I bought in Denmark.
But if I’m going somewhere where a purse is inconvenient, I just take ID, cash, one credit card and my keys, and they all go in my pockets.
I love purses/handbags, so I have several I use depending on my outfit or mood. Usually though, if I’m just running errands, I just cram my cards into a pocket.
I usually have my work keycard in my bra, since women’s clothes have tiny or no pockets.
Backpack. Or a bumbag (aka fannypack) for minimalism. Sizes vary and also styles depending on if I’m going to work, study, forage, recreation or what.
I cannot carry a handbag without wanting to clonk someone over the head with it, can’t carry a shoulder bag since I lived in the bag-snatching capital of Europe many years ago, and … what is a clutchbag anyway? and what’s the point of something you can’t fit pen, notebook, sketchpad and reading material into?
Also it leaves your hands free.
I prefer using a purse instead of pockets. Mostly because women’s clothes have tiny pockets, and many of my clothes have no pockets, so it’s easier. I also cram a lot of stuff in it, and that way I know so long as I have my purse I’ve got all my stuff. (learners permit, sunglasses, random make up, ect.)
Historophilia: Have you considered a tyvek paper wallet? It’s the same material used in the thin FedEx packages, so it’s pretty durable, and my brother has been using one I got him for christmas a few years back.
http://www.vat19.com/dvds/the-mighty-wallet.cfm
I don’t want to derail the wallet discussion, but my post about you-know-who is up.
Eww. Sorry that happened.
I’m reminded of when I was 20 or so and living with my uncle and his girlfriend. He swatted my behind when I was bending to get something from a low cupboard in the kitchen in a dressing gown. Apparently he “had to,” because it was “right there.”
@viscaria
Ew. Your uncle sounds like a real asshole.
But is he really an asshole, or do women’s butts exist just to be swatted? (Answer: he is kind of an asshole.)
I remember one afternoon when I was in middle school, after the buses had arrived and we’d been dismissed, standing in the scrum around the lockers waiting to get a chance to get to mine. A young woman standing in front of me swung her purse up and over her shoulder, and she must not have thought anyone was behind her, because she swung it up high and hit me in the cheek.
She was apologetic, but you know how schools are. Within five minutes some other boy came up to congratulate me for being bold enough to grab her butt, which he’d heard prompted the purse-swatting.
Had to do things! On the creepy dad is creepy thing:
It is certainly one of the creepiest things he’s ever said to me. :l
I remember saying something along the lines of not giving a fuck about people’s view of my ass. Then I left the room.
I feel the need to explain that he probably meant it, along the same line of growing my hair long and dressing feminine, as a ‘please stop acting like a lesbian.’ He was very afraid I would end up gay. So, it was more homophobic then anything else.
Ugh. I’ve had a few male relatives pull the same shit. There’s no limit to how not fucking right that crap is.
=S Wow that’s creepy.
My dad has told my sister something similar. He doesn’t want her to do weight-lifting because he thinks that no man will marry her if she looks “like a man.” >_>
Yuck.
On the other hand, I’d say it’s an excellent way to weed out the kind of people you wouldn’t want to date in the first place. They have a problem with a woman who lifts weights? Well, isn’t that INTERESTING.
What exactly about a strong woman intimidates you?
And just because we’re talking about women weight-lifting…
http://www.themarysue.com/13-year-old-bench-presses-240-lbs/
Have a 13-year-old benchpressing 240 pounds.
Man, I get irritated with my family because they don’t believe the gender wage gap is a thing and they’re douchey about a lot of other stuff, but at least they don’t grab my butt or tell my sister and I that we can’t work out because we’ll look too manly. Hell, my dad makes it a competition with my sister when it comes to lifting or erging. Give thanks for small blessings, I suppose.
Oh feh, I was logged into one of my other accounts… Sorry about that!
Ugh. Two summers ago he was scolded me for cutting my hair really short, about 1 1/2 inches all over. He asked me why I ‘dyked my head’, then spent the entire lunch break we had telling me how my then deployed husband was going to leave me and he wouldn’t blame him in the slightest.