Sure. Why not?

Men using a drinking straw is cool.

OK. Point taken.

Apart from drinking from them I used to use cut pieces of them as shako's on my Airfix plastic Prussian conversions back in the day before the Landwehr came out. Filled with plasticine and given a generous coat of banana oil to harden the plasticine and they were great. The conversions were from the French WW I set and the straw sat quite nicely on the rim of the Adrian helmet.