My dad had a manpurse living in France where such things were considered normal. He loved it. LOL, when we moved to the US, the hazing must have been merciless because he took it to work(once). LOL.
I feel for dudes, you need fortitude and strength (back then at least) to carry the manpurse....
Anna
It’s hard being a man.
When I was in my early teens for a few years us boys had to take our stuff to school in a leather briefcase. There were 2 types. One was a flat briefcase with no handle that opened with a zip along 2 sides. The other was bigger with a handle and it hinged open at the top.
Only hopeless losers used the ones with a handle.
There were 3 ways to carry the flat ones.
Some guys carried them with their hand on the bottom and the briefcase tucked up in their armpit, clamped between their upper arm and chest. That was comfortable but almost as nerdy as having a handle.
The second way was to hold them by the bottom with your arm straight. That was sort of OK.
But the really cool way was to hold them by the top. That took some serious hand strength, especially when they were full of books. After a while your hand started to cramp up with agonizing shooting pains, but you never let it show. It was worth it though because the girls were really impressed when you did it that way. They were, right, Anna?
That’s how you learned to be a man back in the old days.