Talk:Manbag

Masculinity and Manbag
I added the section on "Masculinity and Manbag". The basic idea for that section is to trace the recent coagulation of the term "man bag" and trace it as a fear of contamination of American masculinity by femininity. Right now, the current section adds a few references from popular discourse that demonstrates how this is true. However, there could be better references made but I have not had time to find those yet. Nevertheless, one can already determine that the reason for American men often using the term "man bag" instead of "hand bag", or just "bag", does have to do with the desire to distinguish their hand bags from the hand bags that women carry. This obviously speaks to deeply embedded ideas about masculinity that points to the desire to draw strong boundaries between masculinity and femininity rather than playing with the boundary itself. When I get the time, I will find more and better references. Someone who has a better way to trace this history of the usage "man bag" is encouraged to make bigger changes. --71.146.16.29 (talk) 19:11, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Worldwide view
There is no way for any article to ever represent a "Worldwide view" which is why when one is aware of it, one should locate one's cultural views. In this case, much of the perspective for this article is U.S.-based and it needs to be stated as such. Saying this article does not represent "worldwide view" without acknowledgement what view it comes from is tantamount to failure to acknowledge one's cultural bias. --71.146.16.29 (talk) 02:49, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Add external link
editprotected Please add an External links section with this link: Thank you.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 04:58, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The Curse of the Murse by Paolo Lorenzana, Philippine Star Supreme
 * That link is a blog. Per WP:LINKSTOAVOID blogs should be avoided in external link sections. --Ave Caesar (talk) 05:36, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've removed the editprotected request. I just moved it over here because someone put it at the Murse page, which is a disambig.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 06:04, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Problems.
This article may need to be merged with Messenger Bag, as most of its content relates specifically to that.

The European section appears to be a blatant advert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.121.178 (talk) 21:45, 14 March 2009 (UTC)