Today, we had two girls acting guys watching football and two guys acting how girls shop. There was also a girl trying to act like how a guy pick up a girl. After that, we had a few discussions about how they were all doing it in a wrong way. But one thing that I wanted to know was, is shopping only for girls?

I think many guys who live in the city DO shop like girls; or maybe I should say, they shop in the ways how girls shop. I think it is because the city culture has made shopping to become a less-gendered activity. Outside of the city, there is not too many places for men to buy clothes, shoes, and accessories. But in the city, shops and malls are everywhere and men have no problems finding places to shop. For example, New York has a Coach Men Store that just opened a few months ago. Coach is famous for its handbags for women, but it started to market men and sell menswear and bags in the city. It is just because shopping is something that men also like to do, at least in the city, and shopping seems like a less-gendered thing to do.

Sometimes, I asked why my male friends, who are from Central PA, why don't they shop. They told me that holding a shopping bag would make them look like a girl. The first thing came to mind was like, really? But, it could be true. Guys outside of the city have no access to shops that are famous for mens clothing, such as Hugo Boss or Dunhill. Of course shopping became a women-only kind of thing...