Anonymous
Post 10/18/2025 00:58     Subject: Re:American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:I like being comfortable. I get migraines when my body isn’t comfortable, when I am thirsty or hungry or cold or hot, whatever, it can all trigger a migraine. So I generally have a bottle of water and a protein bar in my purse.

Also, am I the only one who remembers being parched when they were a kid when we didn’t have these??

Yes. But it does sound like your body is unusually sensitive so I can see that you were thirstier than most.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2025 00:20     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:30 years ago about the only bottled water was Mineral Water or Evian/Fiji imported stuff.

There just weren't any regular drinking water for sale other than those exotics. People would have laughed at the notion of buying bottled water.

But years of conditioning has made it where people began to accept it, and now many don't even drink tap water anymore just bottled water or delivery, because they want to avoid the flouride, chlorine, etc. in the tap water.

However while avoiding those things, they get more microplastic exposure since big oil got everyone convinced plastic packaging is the way to go instead of glass.

Glass is much better.


Throughout my 90’s childhood the gallon jugs of Poland Spring was our household drinking water.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2025 00:19     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:I’m with you, OP. It is odd.

I’d say GenXers like me don’t do this, after growing up drinking from the backyard hose or the public water fountain, but I have contemporaries who not only carry their emotional support Stanleys, but get the cutsie little character things to plug the straw.

So I dunno…


Have you gotten free ones at work or conferences or mtgs or from marketing for years and years?
So sick of isolated free double insulated coffee cups, thermoses, sippy cups, water bottles.

Kids have to use the plastic Gatorade ones, school rules.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2025 00:08     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is the healthiest drink, and most informed people eschew plastic bottles.

You should be admiring, not criticizing, this trend.


My body will tell me when it's thirsty. I don't need to lug around a massive bottle all day in anticipation of needing a sip here and there.


Their body tells them when they are thirsty too. They just plan ahead for those moments, Instead of having to stop what they are doing or contribute another plastic bottle to the planet’s waste.

It is very odd that they bother you.


Their bottles are always falling over, rolling around taking up space. And really nobody is drinking from it. They just lug it around clanging it into things.


The carpool we are in has girls slamming the car doors and clanking their Stanley’s and owallas on the car door metal. Good times.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2025 00:06     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:If some “expert” said it was good for them to keep a banana in both of their armpits, American women would do that.


And wear a weighted vest at all times.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2025 00:06     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I do notice that it is an anxiety thing for one of my young adult daughters. It’s like carrying a blankie.


The schools are ridiculous: everybody bring your fashion water bottles! Don’t mind the crashing and clanking of them rolling off desks and everywhere. Hydrate!!


This…is not happening. I work in an office where most people bring a water bottle and set it on their desk. There is no crashing or clanking. I assume high school would be the same.


Wait yours comparing sitting at your office desk with a water bottle to walking and changing classrooms every hour and setting up your water bottle alongside 25 other kids?! lol
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2025 00:04     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I do notice that it is an anxiety thing for one of my young adult daughters. It’s like carrying a blankie.


The schools are ridiculous: everybody bring your fashion water bottles! Don’t mind the crashing and clanking of them rolling off desks and everywhere. Hydrate!!


This…is not happening. I work in an office where most people bring a water bottle and set it on their desk. There is no crashing or clanking. I assume high school would be the same.


Indoor sportsplexes ban metal water bottles. Get kicked, balls hit them, loud if no turf, they roll. Must have rubber or plastic on bottom and top.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2025 16:15     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I drink out of a glass while at home and while at work. I only use a water bottle at the gym. I have no idea why people need these.


You carry around a glass at work?? I haven’t ever seen a coworker do this. I’d be worried about spilling on my laptop as I move things around. Plus, dust getting in my glass.


Why is dust getting in your glass? I thought you were thirsty are you not actually drinking the water?
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2025 16:14     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
I’m with you, OP. It is odd.

I’d say GenXers like me don’t do this, after growing up drinking from the backyard hose or the public water fountain, but I have contemporaries who not only carry their emotional support Stanleys, but get the cutsie little character things to plug the straw.

So I dunno…
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2025 16:07     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:I drink out of a glass while at home and while at work. I only use a water bottle at the gym. I have no idea why people need these.


You carry around a glass at work?? I haven’t ever seen a coworker do this. I’d be worried about spilling on my laptop as I move things around. Plus, dust getting in my glass.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2025 16:00     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Things that entitled Karens do
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2025 16:00     Subject: Re:American women and water bottles? Why?
I moved to the U.S. and began doing this also. Went back home for Dr.'s appointment and the Dr. mentioned that the U.S. has a massive "hydration culture" because I was drinking too much water. Dr. pointed out how normal it is to be served water at restaurants as you sit and the constant refilling of water, walking with water bottles, and buying bottled water in bulk in cases.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2025 15:57     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:What’s the genesis and current deep attachment to water bottles that American women have (at all ages)?

In Madrid for the last month and American women of all ages clutching their water bottles — at the hotel, walking about, just pretty much at all times of the day except going out at night.

Are American women uniquely dehydrated?


Don’t blame me for this; it’s something only the white women do.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2025 15:07     Subject: Re:American women and water bottles? Why?
I like being comfortable. I get migraines when my body isn’t comfortable, when I am thirsty or hungry or cold or hot, whatever, it can all trigger a migraine. So I generally have a bottle of water and a protein bar in my purse.

Also, am I the only one who remembers being parched when they were a kid when we didn’t have these??
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2025 14:06     Subject: American women and water bottles? Why?
Anonymous wrote:I bring a 34 ounce Hydroflask full of water everyday. I finish it every single day and feel so much better for having done so.


I drag a 50-gallon drum of water behind me wherever I go. Going up stairways is a pain, but you’re never going to find me dehydrated.