Mancation

[Chris F Waigl]

Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> On 9/18/06, bapopik at aol.com <bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
>> "Mancation biz: It's a guy thing" is in today's NY Daily News, 18 September
>> 2006, pg. 32. Where is the Double Tongued Word Wrester entry when you need it?
>> ...
>> "Vince Vaughn helped popularize the term mancationing in the film 'The Break-up.'
>> At the Fairmont Chicago, the 'Mancation Package' includes seminars on style and
>> entertaining, cigar sampling, whisky tasting, and a steak dinner starting at $399 a
>> person."
>
> Noted here on Sep. 14...
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609B&L=ADS-L&P=R10033

It wasn't clear for me at all what "mancation" was referring to or how
it was formed. Now that I got it, is "vacation" somehow connoted as
feminine in English or the U.S.?

Chris Waigl

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