Their comment to you was simply a 'straw man' argument.
"Taking the time to be in touch with my feminine side"
How bad would it have been if you had ordered chocolate milk and used two straws?
Chocolate milk should not be drank thru a straw, it should be gulped like I do.
Do you like chocolate milk? I recommend the Nestle quik "latin flavor" powder, oh it has a kick!
What Tracii may have failed to mention was if her straw looked like this -
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...L._SL1001_.jpg
She was just sitting there using it and DARING anyone to say something.
It takes a true Erin to be a pain in the assatar.
Y'all are getting crazy now LOL
Straws for the world !!
My biggest hassle with straws is that americans go through 500 millions straws a day. Every day. That's 182,500,000,000 per year. My wife went online and found stainless steel straws that we take around in the car so as not to add the the grand total.
I read the OP several times and still can't find where the guy said that using a straw is gay. Maybe he thinks it's childish.
Aside from their particular attitude about the use of drinking straws there is a much larger issue--BAD MANNERS. I was always taught that it is the height of rudeness and bad manners to make comments on the people around you at a restaurant. Whatever you order and however you choose to eat it or drink it is your business. Of course I was also taught to eat properly so that I did not offend those around me by greedily shoveling food into my mouth.
There are two possible reasons Noone has considered here. Maybe they were tasked with finding out where all the straws were going. And maybe he wanted to use a straw and his friends made fun of him. So he was like see other guys use straws. We always assume the worst. Maybe he used the straw as a way to get his friends to look without being a complete jerk and using a derogatory word. Though it is still a jerk move it at least shows a sign of politeness.