In today's fast-paced society, your average male has to face many and varied decisions; does he go to his favourite place to buy a manwich? Perhaps he'll get a mankini wax for a day on the beach? Maybe it's all just a big load of utter manshit.
Are we really so insecure that anything that could be considered even slightly less than cigar-chomping, hard-drinking, gung-ho masculine has to be rubber stamped with the word "Man" to ensure that we're not all sissy lady-boys or worse, maybe (Shock!) gay? Manbag, Mankini, Mangina? These portmanteaus have got to die! They are as ludicrous and etymologically unsound as the oft misapplied "Fem" prefix that came before and are only superseded by the "Bro" prefix following in the wake.
Of course the defence is that "Oh, it's just a bit of fun!" but I disagree. It's buzzwordy hipster crap, a security blanket for idiots who want to define themselves by the narrowest terms possible and as far as I am concerned they can be crammed down, or maybe up the nearest manhole.
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