Oh shit, I can explain this. Kinda. I can’t explain how we got to wallets implying gender, but this wallet looks like it’s bigger and possibly has a zipper (just guessing by thickness). Apparently it’s a thing for girl wallets to be dummy thic; I’d guess because a purse can carry more than a pocket can. Maybe that’s how we got here?
Personal anecdote time, back when $20 meant something, I stuffed a $20 bill in my pocket and ended up losing it. My SO was rightfully pissed at me about it, because we could not afford to just lose $20. After a bit of talking it over, we arrived the the problem being that I just had too much shit in my little wallet, so we decided that the best way forward would be to get me a big, big wallet to hold all my shit. I actually got some light teasing about it at work, mostly from the Gen X folks, about it being a girl wallet (am cismale), but it didn’t bother me because I’m not stupid and I’ve got other shit to worry about besides whether my wallet is apparently gender normative. And besides, the teasing honestly wasn’t that bad, I took it affectionately and started saying “yeah, it’s my MANifold”; a dumb joke that got a few chuckles, and that was basically the end of it. It’s been over a decade and I still use giant fucking wallets to this day because they’re really useful for carrying a bunch of stuff in an organized way.
Oh shit, I can explain this. Kinda. I can’t explain how we got to wallets implying gender, but this wallet looks like it’s bigger and possibly has a zipper (just guessing by thickness). Apparently it’s a thing for girl wallets to be dummy thic; I’d guess because a purse can carry more than a pocket can. Maybe that’s how we got here?
Personal anecdote time, back when $20 meant something, I stuffed a $20 bill in my pocket and ended up losing it. My SO was rightfully pissed at me about it, because we could not afford to just lose $20. After a bit of talking it over, we arrived the the problem being that I just had too much shit in my little wallet, so we decided that the best way forward would be to get me a big, big wallet to hold all my shit. I actually got some light teasing about it at work, mostly from the Gen X folks, about it being a girl wallet (am cismale), but it didn’t bother me because I’m not stupid and I’ve got other shit to worry about besides whether my wallet is apparently gender normative. And besides, the teasing honestly wasn’t that bad, I took it affectionately and started saying “yeah, it’s my MANifold”; a dumb joke that got a few chuckles, and that was basically the end of it. It’s been over a decade and I still use giant fucking wallets to this day because they’re really useful for carrying a bunch of stuff in an organized way.