Fur Wheelin'

I keep seeing men pushing dogs in baby strollers and carrying dogs as women do. What's going on? An epidemic of sissified men? If I ever did this, I'd hope my family would have me committed.

--Disturbed

"Release the hounds!" does lose some of its punch when it's followed by "...as soon as you can unzip them from their polka-dot stroller." Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control lists no reports of an outbreak of Pomeranians poking their little heads out of man purses. However, you're right; dog strollers are increasingly becoming a thing. As for why this is, think "Field of Dreams": "If you build it..." and sell it at Petco, people will buy it so they won't have to leave their old, tired, and/or disabled doggy home alone. As for what pushing a doggybuggy says about a man, anthropologists and zoologists would call this a "costly signal." This is an extravagant or risky trait or behavior that comes with a substantial price -- which suggests that the quality being displayed is for real. An example of this is conspicuous waste -- signaling vast wealth by using $100 bills as birdcage liners. Accordingly, it takes a man with masculinity to burn to not fear putting off all those women who previously announced to their friends, "We want sensitive men! -- though not, you know, 'put their Shih Tzu in a baby stroller' sensitive."