IHE-36 - Small Shoulder Bag - 12oz Wabash - Indigo or Black
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…part of me wants to roast you (I won’t), and I agree with the sentiments above. I have longer hair, wear earrings, like pinks shirts, and generally don’t give a fuck. Does that make me less masculine than someone else, probably, but I don’t care. Would I wear and use that bag? Yes, but I already have multiple bags in use and can’t see buying another right now.
Also two kids (both girls) and a beautiful wife that I’ve been with for 30 years. Not that it matters…
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I've had some fun, but in all seriousness: It doesn't matter what you wear or how you wear it. Being comfortable with yourself is the most important. If YOU like it and want to wear it, what does it matter?
Also, I abhor people who judge and bully people for the choices they make…
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Hey people have their hangups and that’s not really our business if they can’t let them go. Can always go backpack or messenger bag if this form factor isn’t something you can wear confidently.
I have some baggage around baggage myself: I’ll never wear a fanny pack outside of technical applications like mountain biking. It’s not tied to masculinity, I just think they look like something a del Boca Vista resident would wear. I won’t pretend my agist hangup is somehow better than one on masculinity, but I’ll own it.
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I feel like everyone has already said everything there is to say about wearing what works for YOU [mention]BrianA [/mention]
I just wanted to chime in and point out that what your brother-in-law and other people may say about men with bags and the like are very old-fashioned views on fashion and masculinity. Modern men are better off ignoring them and allowing their sons to move forward with a more inclusive and complete version of what it means to be a man. Including carrying bags if they need/want them, and even (gasp!) showing their feelings.
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@sabergirl What are these feelings that you speak of? Do you mean like eating ice cream too fast or having to pee really bad?
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like pinks shirts
Oof… steady on there.
Maybe @goosehd is just tapping into the old ways - “As a shade of red, pink shared its connotations of vigour and was worn freely by fashionable men”. Or in our context, perhaps pink = red + evo. The early 20th century got a lot wrong - stealing pink from guys is way down the list!
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/in-the-pink-colour-in-menswear
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Modern men are better off ignoring them and allowing their sons to move forward with a more inclusive and complete version of what it means to be a man.
Exactly. Getting hung up on what we think others expect of our gender is a trap, even sort of ironically (if harmlessly) demonstrated in this thread when a couple of us who wear this bag asserted facts about their lives in defense of their masculinity.
I think we are better focused on what it means to be a good and happy human being than on conforming to external expectations of any sort, be they around gender, race, creed, sexuality, nationality, etc.
Ha. Look what we did to this poor thread about a bag.
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The ONLY thing keeping me from buying this bag is I need more space for my things. I’ve long carried a bag and although I’ve gotten shit over it (being a male nurse didnt help but so I digress) no F’s given here.
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I recently read that some eastern-european machos think of our free Europe, with all it‘s different ways of life, love and respect for every human being (well ideally), as Gayrope , thereby expressing their view how decayed we all are here.
In this sense I‘m proud to be gayropean.
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…I want to leave this thread but it really hit on a nerve. How many people have been harmed because of this backwards mentality over the decades prior and still prominent in some circles. Men, Women, Girls, Boys all feeling guilty, bullied, harassed, and harmed because they didn't fit the definitions that others thought were right.
People have been killed either directly or indirectly (suicide) because of this neanderthalic thinking and I wish it would stop...
