- 27 Aug 2017 19:26
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"Purse" originally meant a cache of money without any particular gender associations. Then someone invented a fancy kind of purse especially adapted for holding the new fangled paper notes and plastic cards which was called a wallet.
Males being always the first to pounce on these new fancy gadgets became eager wallet adopters whilst the ladies persisted with simple bags, "purses", for holding money for quite some time. So then developed the stereotype that wallets are for men and purses are for women.
In sporting jargon they are simply using the legacy meaning of purse, a cache of money.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!
Rancid wrote:Am I the only person that thinks it's kind of weird that they always refer to the prize money for a fight as "the purse."
"Purse" originally meant a cache of money without any particular gender associations. Then someone invented a fancy kind of purse especially adapted for holding the new fangled paper notes and plastic cards which was called a wallet.
Males being always the first to pounce on these new fancy gadgets became eager wallet adopters whilst the ladies persisted with simple bags, "purses", for holding money for quite some time. So then developed the stereotype that wallets are for men and purses are for women.
In sporting jargon they are simply using the legacy meaning of purse, a cache of money.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!