My Latte Has Two X-Chromosomes

Waiting in line at my neighborhood coffee shop the other morning I overheard this conversation between two middle aged men, who I suspect were coworkers:

Man #1 (to cashier): I’ll have a medium skim vanilla latte, please.

Man #2 (to friend, incredulously): Skim latte? Who’s that for, a girl!?

Man #2 (to cashier): Large Americano.

Photo by: the half-blood prince, flickr.com

In less than 10 words Man #2 had managed to gender a beverage, humiliate his friend, and assert his own masculinity. That’s ho