Windows Phone Thoughts: From the Suspiciously Close To a Purse Department: The Man Bag Review

"A lot of you are familiar with my quest for the perfect gadget bag. Well to tell you the truth I'd settle for a bag that will carry all my stuff and passes my wife's "manly" test. You know, a bag that she won't laugh at and call my man purse. So, when I had the opportunity to review a bag called appropriately The Man Bag, I jumped. After all, if the slogan is "if it's not a Man Bag it's a purse!" it must pass my wife's manly test, right? The Man Bag is manufactured and sold on the Man Bag website. Actually the official name is the Man-n-Bag but they are known throughout as simply the Man Bag so that's what I call it. They offer several bags of different sizes but the one that interested me most was the smallest- the Axible. Strange name but, well, manly."

Unfortunately, I think that even the subtle application of a few spikes and Metallica stickers would not be sufficient to take the purse curse off of this bag. The closest I've gotten to a manly bag is a briefcase sort of thing that looks kinda like this. For trips where I need to take equipment but don't want to haul around something large, I rely on the fairly butch Podzilla. Who else here has this problem? Have you found something that works for you and passes the "Doesn't Look Like a Purse" test?