Pens For Women … Thank You?

I’m sensing sarcasm.

Oh, just what I always wanted! Pens in ugly pastel colors! YES!

This article is awesome. Although, I kind of want the pens just so I can refuse to ever let a male touch them. Ever. I’ll put a crossed out penis on every single one of them, because the pastel wasn’t enough.

…psh. It’s gonna take a lot more than some ugly pastel colors to talk me out of my “only using stolen writing utensils” policy.

Ugly Pastel colours… Ugh.
Aren’t Women supposed to know better than that?
I mean, Sarah Richardson and Debbie Travis are both from Canada, and they’re designer/decorators, but I don’t think they’d do ugly like that… I mean, the clients might, but they’re both paid to dissuade the clients from design/decor disasters, aren’t they?
I sure hope so…

What’s the difference between pens for women and a geek blog for women?
It’s silly to make fun of “for women” products when you essentially are one.

Context and content?

I think a more accurate name would be “Not For Him.” Because women may or may not like them, but I can guarantee that there are a lot of guys who wouldn’t be caught dead in public using a lavender pen.

Congratulations, Bic. You’ve just ostracized everyone in both genders. Now all you have to do is create “For Monkeys” and “For Cats with Mitten Paws,” and we’ll be all set.

Put down the pretty pen and get me a sammich.

The differences between those pens and this particular blog? See Steve Martin. What makes the pens ‘for women’? How are they different to normal pens in a significant way? A way that will make it easier for women to write with them? And if there is nothing specifically helpful for women about these pens, why are they ‘for her’?

This blog, while I’m not saying is written just ‘for her’, it does have a slight gender studies angle to it. Some people want a place where they can discuss geekdom within the context of gender studies, or vice versa. It has its place and its use albeit one that might be rather niche.

Googled them. Apparently, they have a “thin body adapted to smaller hands.”

http://www.ukofficedirect.co.uk/bic-cristal-for-her-ball-prd_217124.aspx

I don’t know if this is just me and my chunky man hands, but I’ve never had a problem with pens being too big (oh, the innuendo). Children don’t have a problem with ‘normal’ sized pens… why should women?

The fact they’re ‘girly’ colours just makes the whole idea even more silly. Bic, you make good pens, and everyone needs pens. Why created new unnecessary pens?

I actually enjoy writing with big pens with big grips….so yeah. dumb.

Finally! I can write with a gender-appropriate instrument!

Lol, this is like that staircase at Wellesley that’s supposedly “designed for a woman’s stride.” Most UNCOMFORTABLE STAIRCASE EVER. Also, since my fiance’s hands are smaller than mine, maybe he should use these? Who even came up with this? Seriously, does it not bother anyone that someone got PAID to design this crap?

Bic also made razors “for women” because they were pink and now they’ve been marketed to the point that shaving your legs is barely optional.

Yeah, some of the really thin biro pens are difficult to grip, ESPECIALLY if you have long girly nails (which I don’t any more, sadly).

Pssh, I haven’t shaved my legs in years. How else can I call myself a hairy-legged feminist?

They’re for women because each pen only costs 75% of what a man’s pen costs, even when they are exactly the same color and size.

I used to have classes with mostly boys, and I would buy pink, glittery pens and pencils with hearts and flowers on them so that they wouldn’t “accidentally” walk out the room with them. Well, that didn’t stop them.

Actually, cute, girly pens don’t bother me at all. What does bother me is:

- A small Texas town blaming an 11-year-old girl for her own rape
- Female Egyptian protesters being molested
- Female American journalists being molested by male Egyptian protesters
- Being talked down to at work for being female
- And yes, the 75 cents or whatever to every dollar thing.

Come on, guys, it’s a waste of time to get angry about this! They’re fucking cute and pink/bright colors. I think the company’s just trying to market it toward women by giving them a more delicate, precise grip – the success of the design is another debate altogether. But whatever the fuck ever. I will wield a pink fuzzy pen, wear lipstick, and bust balls any day. There are real issues out there to care and get angry about. There is nothing sexist about this.

“IF WE GOT ANGRY ABOUT THIS KIND OF THING WE’D BE ANGRY ALL THE TIME” (caps not mine)

i’m not saying we should be angry, but the oppression of women is systematic. the pens are no big deal. but the general consensus that women need to buy products (such as pink razors) that are designed to make adult women appear to be hairless children is a symptom of all the problems we really have and if we sexualize juvenile appearing women, how are we surprised at the sexualization of actual children? also, i refuse to be a market in the capitalism game for such stupid crap, but i usually take the approach of ignoring it instead of getting angry. but really you can’t right off the small stuff, because it all adds up to the general seperate and delicate position that the establishment would have us in.

right, i understand sarcasm. but if you weren’t angry about it you wouldn’t be mentioning it at all.

hmmm, there’s a huge chasm between “well-groomed” and “hairless child.” go blame the brazilian bikini waxers, not razors. also, men use razors too (thankfully).

That… wasn’t sarcasm. It’s the sort of group headline that posts like this come under. It also includes the Virgin mobile ad and the Bieber post. It’s; this is a bit strange, we’ll point it out, but hey, it’s not as if we’re going to take the streets and march against it.

If we only ever talked about the things that completely enrage s or bring us to ecstasy… well it’d be a strange world, and we’d all be exhausted all of the time.

we dont sell them here http://www.evolvingoffice.co.uk/ so does that mean we’re not sexist?