libes@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Don Libes) (03/27/85)
I've always thought wallets were uncomfortable with just bills alone in
them. I can't believe the crap that I see people carrying around in
them (credit cards, photographs, spare keys and now, condoms)!
How does anyone sit down? When I carried a wallet, I used to rip out
the insides, so it was as slim as possible. Finally, I got some credit
cards, though and it just got too thick. So I bought a small pocketbook.
Its big enough to hold a checking book, wallet, address book, note pad,
and some pens - what I really need with me during the day. Its also
got a small compartment inside just the right size for a condom. Since
I don't sit on my pocketbook, I don't think this should be a problem.
I've used the pocketbook now for 3 years and I'd never go back to a
wallet. My only question is, why do all women use pocketbooks and all
(other) men use wallets? (Please don't tell me dresses don't have
pockets, because then I'll ask you why women wear dresses and men
don't.) I have never understood these artificial customs that continue
in the face of supposed modern social freedom.
While I'm at it, I think that any ideosyncracy used predominately by
one sex and not the other (e.g. wearing lipstick, eyeliner, shaving
arms and legs, painting nails, smoking pipes or cigars) is ok IF you
are doing it for yourself, but I suspect that most people do it trying
to conform to gender mores and this really turns me off.
BTW, my boss has never bothered me about wearing a pocketbook at work
although several other males have said "What is that?" pointing to it
as if they had never seen such a thing. The only remarks I've gotten
from females are queries as to what I keep in it.
Note, I have cross-posted this to net.women since some of this seems
more appropriate to that (oh why isn't there a net.men or net.sex?). I
only meant for the condem/wallet stuff to go to net.singles.
Don Libes {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!libesecl@ahutb.UUCP (e.c.leeper) (04/02/85)
What makes you think *all* women use pocketbooks?! Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!ecl