Manpurse? Man-purse? Man purse? Which is it?
We know some of you have been wondering: Why do we insist on spelling “man purse” as two words? Shouldn’t it be manpurse? or man-purse?

Mark Ginocchio, columnist for the Stamford Advocate, finds his man purse has gained weight since the holidays:
Each day to work I carry a “messenger bag” which is really just a euphenism [sic] for man bag or better yet, man purse. As I take the Metro-North train to Stamford every morning, I sling my leather black [...]

This week’s big man-purse news, of course, is the reintroduction of Mattel’s Ken doll — tan, rested, and ready after a two-year break from Barbie, his longtime girlfriend. The new Ken has two outfits: One is a beach getup that will be available in stores soon. But the other, featured more prominently in the rush [...]

Clearly, a man carrying a purse encounters obstacles a woman with a purse does not:
For the second time in the last six months or so, I have been forced to check my bag. The first time, I was at a Yankees game and they told me I couldn’t bring my bag into the stadium. I [...]

Yesterday we implied that those homeless vets in Seattle who received $16,000 in proceeds from the sale of Tom Bihn’s “famous label” T-shirts might have been less comfortable with the whole idea if that money had come directly from sales of the company’s man purses. But that was before we saw these pictures of [...]

Perhaps the most insidious of entrees into the world of man purses is through the laptop bag. The great bonus of having a laptop case is that you can carry around so much extra stuff with you whenever you have to bring your computer: cables and computer accessories, sure, but also your cell phone, iPod, [...]

An L.A. grad student and serial online dater who calls herself “The Uncaught Catch” describes a harrowing experience with her latest in what looks to be a series of Mr. Wrongs. Her date’s fatal faux pas? Wearing a fanny pack.
We sat down at the sushi bar and all of a sudden, FannyPacMan (his new name) [...]

We thought we had covered the Chewbacca man-purse controversy rather thoroughly earlier, but we apparently failed to include any chewy insights from a true expert on the subject. That expert would be Glenn Mendler, who refers to himself as the Joseph Campbell chair of Mythology at Lucas College and the author of Chewbacca’s Purse: Androgyny [...]

In man-bag lore, one satchel-bearing figure looms over the rest, providing cultural cover to countless purse-toting fellers. No, we don’t mean Kermit (here he’s just being a copy-frog). We mean Indiana Jones.
“Indiana Jones wore one” is the wail of wounded young man-purse wearers everywhere. If you find yourself toting out the Indiana Purse Defense, though, [...]

It starts with a wallet. And that fits fine, though it makes you sit funny. Next comes the cell phone. There’s a clip you can put on your belt, but that’s a fashion statement you maybe shy from. Then those little pills you carry around with you. And the keys. And the change. And isn’t [...]