# Ladies: Manly men, or metrosexual?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-manly-men-or-metrosexual/268929>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 13, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-manly-men-or-metrosexual/268929 "2004-10-13T01:51:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-manly-men-or-metrosexual/268929/101 "2004-10-15T15:43:14Z")

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I can’t even _begin_ to tell you how much chainmail chafes. 😉 Give me a Wonder Woman costume any day.

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-manly-men-or-metrosexual/268929/102 "2004-10-15T16:07:06Z")

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> [@Draelin](#):
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> I can’t even _begin_ to tell you how much chainmail chafes. 😉 Give me a Wonder Woman costume any day.

Let it never be said that we geeks are uncompromising. It’s a deal! 😉

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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-manly-men-or-metrosexual/268929/103 "2004-10-15T17:35:35Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> Let me elaborate, here:  
> …Bond plays Baccarat.  
> …Bond drinks wine, sherry or cocktails.  
> …Bond drives itty-bitty little European sports cars.  
> …Bond kills people with a Walther PPK .32, a metrosexual firearm if there ever was one.

Way to crush everthing I ever believed in to dust **Alessan**. :smack:

I still hold that Baccarat is cool as are proper martinis as long as they don’t have vanilla or snozzberry vodka or some other kind of goddamn fruited up flavor. I like my pickup truck **and** hot little sports cars so that is a wash.

Bond was ordered to replace his Beretta .25 with the .32 which hits “like a brick through a plate glass window,” and in one of the movies a villan refers to it as “a lady’s purse gun.”

Felix Leighter hobbling on his shark-bitten-off leg with a fucking rubber crutch, doesn’t MI6 (I can never remember if that is a freeway or the secret service) know how to equip a 00 agent? What kind of pussy carries a goddamn .32? I wouldn’t give one to my wife. Hell, I wouldn’t consider it reliable to kill goddamn post eating hamsters. I blame it on Fleming who consistently proved he didn’t know shit about guns.

Bond at least carries a grownup’s gun now, a Walther P99, even if it is 9mm Parabellum. They make a .45 ACP version and I’ve had my eye on one for my own use but Bond would have to accept that it has a S&W logo on it.

Padeye - who carries every kind of .45 from a Sig to a Walker, likes kentucky bourbon, pick-em-up trucks with V-8 engines and doesn’t even know how to pronounce quiche but does shower regularly.

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