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Originally Posted by Chris is me
You might want to take a step back and try and figure out why you find a purse specifically unprofessional. There's obviously some gendered connotations to this, and perhaps to some extent your internal view of what constitutes "professional" includes "non-feminine". That's probably not great.
Even if you think anybody holding any kind of bag anywhere looks unprofessional - which gender's default clothing has pockets that are so small, going without a bag isn't always an option? This is an internal bias that is going to cause you to view more women as unprofessional than men.
We all have internal biases over things that, in a vacuum, logically make sense, but when applied to society as a whole tend to distort our views toward particular groups. This doesn't make you a bad person or whatever, it's just something to be aware of and to try and counteract.
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For the record, I found the field reset people and referees wearing backpacks to look unprofessional too. It wasn't just purses but that seemed to be inline with the whole lack of pockets discussion. When I did field reset, we were specifically told to not have anything extraneous with us. I am signed up to referee at an upcoming off season event and my plan is to eliminate any possible distraction on my person that I can.