Mancation

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:06 PM +0100 9/18/06, Chris F Waigl wrote:
>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
>
Not necessarily; there are (underspecified) "vacations" as the
superordinate category, then there are sex-specific "girls' getaways"
and "mancations", not to mention "gaycations", etc. etc.

LH

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