BiC Now Offers Ink Pens for Women, People Are Smartasses
13 years ago

The idea behind designing something so gender-centric as an ink pen for women is so unfathomably ridiculous I can’t stand it. It’s a pen. You grab it, you put it to paper, you move it around, and it writes shit. Job over. No need to bring gender equality to a writing utensil. If you have a hand, you have the only required tool to operate a pen. What’s next, paperclips for geriatrics?

The BiC pen for women is available on Amazon.com, and the hilarious commenters over there had a field day with it.

Here’s a short example of a product review for the pen, but there are 31 pages of it and most are pure gold. Gawker did a great job of capturing some of the best ones, so click on the link and enjoy.


  4. LarryJones

    This guy gets it

    5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary article – must buy!, 20 Aug 2012
    By jonny- See all my reviews
    This review is from: BIC For Her Amber Medium Ballpoint Pen (Box of 12) – Black (Office Product)
    This pen is great. I bought it for all my female friends and relatives. It enabled them, finally, to write things (although they may not yet know to do so on paper; but you can only expect so much, really). I thought they were just a bit slow.

    My mother, a hard-working woman who raised twelve kids single-handedly whilst doing all the ironing (as nature intended), was furtively abashed by her illiteracy. Long would she gaze upon her husband and sons’ scrawlings and would dedicate five minutes a day (which she really should have spent making sandwiches) to pray that one day she would be granted the ability to create such scribbles of her own. She’s still a little slow on the uptake, but this product has definitely helped start the ball rolling. We tried to give her men’s pens but she used to rip the cartridges out and drink the ink. Typical woman.

    Anyway, it’s good that BIC are finally doing something to aid the plight of women. Hopefully a range of ‘for her’ paperclips is on the horizon – my wife has an awful time keeping her recipes together.

    13 years ago at 2:50 pm
  5. high kapp

    Damnit, Dorn. I’ve spent like 2 hours laughing at that comments page. Well done.

    13 years ago at 4:25 pm