*Bic Pen For Women...Revisited!*

[AGBF]

In a thread just started by Smith (about Amazon reviews of men's hair removal creams), she alluded to a Pricescope thread we had about Amazon reviews of Bic pens for women. I remember reading those screamingly funny reviews on Amazon. What I never knew was whether there had actually been a Bic pen for women or not. I had really thought at first that some really smart women had set up a website and started writing spoof reviews of an imaginary product.

So I searched the 'net for the women's Bic pen tonight to see if there had been (was) a real one...and found that there was and that the Amazon reviews were of a real pen. Which was mind boggling to me. I also saw that there was an episode of an "Ellen" show (Ellen DeGeneres) about it. As usual, she does a nice job with the topic.


Ellen on the Bic Pen For Women...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCyw3prIWhc

Deb/AGBF

 

[Enerchi]

...now I know what's been missing in my life... I've only had "MAN PENS" all this time!! wow - thanks Ellen!!

 

[kenny]

 

[kenny]

I'm not sure if these are for men or for women.

 

[AGBF]

This was the review Amazon posted as the most helpful one on its website. It's called, "FINALLY!" and was written by Tracy Hamilton.

"Someone has answered my gentle prayers and FINALLY designed a pen that I can use all month long! I use it when I'm swimming, riding a horse, walking on the beach and doing yoga. It's comfortable, leak-proof, non-slip and it makes me feel so feminine and pretty! Since I've begun using these pens, men have found me more attractive and approachable. It has given me soft skin and manageable hair and it has really given me the self-esteem I needed to start a book club and flirt with the bag-boy at my local market. My drawings of kittens and ponies have improved, and now that I'm writing my last name hyphenated with the Robert Pattinson's last name, I really believe he may some day marry me! I'm positively giddy. Those smart men in marketing have come up with a pen that my lady parts can really identify with.

Where has this pen been all my life???"

AGBF

 

[junebug17]

I'm not sure if these are for men or for women.

kenny, you made me almost choke on my iced tea!!!!

Love Ellen, she is so funny!

 

[yennyfire]

OMG!!

 

[Smith1942]

Oh yes - I'd forgotten about the Bic pen for women reviews. What a patronising product!

About 12 years ago in England there was a really strange slogan for a bar of chocolate. The bar was called Yorkie, and the slogan was: "It's not for girls." THEN, the manufacturers brought out a version with pink wrapping - presumably for women??

Anyway, in my youth I used to eat lots of chocolate, but I never bought a Yorkie bar again! It's not for girls? Fine, I won't buy it then, I thought to myself!

 

[ChristineRose]

They used to make women's pens a lot.

They had no clip on the cap because women weren't supposed to put their pens in shirt pockets.
They tended to be smaller as women have smaller hands but of they came in all sizes as even some petite people choose a large pen.
Some were short as some long pens don't fit well in small purses.
There were some cool variants like tiny pens on a necklace and pens on a retractable chain that clipped to your collar. The latter were sometimes called "nurse's pens" as nurses back then had neither collars nor pocketbooks and certainly no necklaces.
As far as style, pens before the disposable age were much prettier as a rule, and no one expected the ladies to settle for pink plastic nor the gentlemen to settle for white plastic. And everyone carried his or her own pen, there was none of this el cheapo stuff lying around at random.
Of course pens came in hundreds of types. Fine scratchy pens for bookkeepers. Many, many different types for fancy scripts. Extra-hard pens for filling out carbon paper forms. Special pens for the special strokes needed for shorthand. Pens for musical notes, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, quill pen scripts, decorative Victorian scripts, business cursive, signatures.

Check this out.

http://www.withoutink.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/esterbrook-nib-chart-211.gif

Not a single word about pink.