The Feminist and the Handbag

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, but I guess what triggered me to start writing about it was a conversation between two of my friends on twitter. A female friend tweeted her delight in finding internal pockets in the (men’s) jacket she was wearing. A mutual male friend of ours replied, ‘wait women’s clothing don’t have them? No outer pockets on a lot of stuff too?’ He was surprised. No one who frequently wears women’s clothing was. I decided to bring him up to speed, responding with: ‘This is why women carry handbags. There is very little utility to women’s clothing.’ And suddenly I felt the familiar, bitter taste of having been duped.

This was a really good blog post about the paradox of the purse.

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    MAN CLOTHES FOR AAAALLLLLL!!!!!!! FFFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL THE COMFORT!!!!!!
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    I’ve had to explain this an odd amount of times to the men in my life about the lack of utility particularly in women’s...
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    so … I’m going to make/buy myself a toolbelt because I am siCK OF THIS
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    This. I WAS THROUGHLY surprised & excited when I found out my new dresses have pockets. Everyone was surprised @ my...
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    This is really interesting!
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    BOOB POCKETS At some point in the future I assume we’ll evolve into marsupials.
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