#bicforher

[petepaintswarhammer]

Have I just found a cursed artefact?

[damewendy]

I feel pretty 🙊💅🏻💃🏼💋 #bicforher

[agirlwholovesagirl]

LMFAO

[sweatnglow-blog]

"Can you believe this? We've been using man pens all these years!" - Ellen, on the Bic for Her pens. Yep, they're pink. And sometimes purple.

And she does a spoof commercial for Bic. Awesome.

[red-fem-blog]

Feminist Avengers Responsible for Amazon 'For Her' Pen Reviews

Have you seen the reviews of Bic's Pens 'For Her' on Amazon? nearly 200 hilarious reviews taking the piss out of the pens (in a range of pastel colours, obviously) made especially to "fit comfortably in a woman's hand" enabling her to "write smoothly". 

Quite rightly the Feminist Avengers have challenged this gendering nonsense by initiating these parody reviews and encouraging other women to do the same.  Spokeswoman Clara Zetkin said they "mocked the pink and purple pens - why? because women don't need special pens we need to live in a world without the patriarchy and special pens ain't gonna help us do that!"

Highlights from the reviews include:

"I am a huge fan of the gender binary. Without it, it's very hard to work out who to oppress... I saw these 'bic for her' with their pink box and was so relieved the cheap razors would not sully my bathroom with their orange glare - I was reluctant to run the risk of being misgendered by overnight guests. And then they arrived and were pens... I write things, but not often enough to require 12 pens. Seriously - the only feminine person I can think of who produces that many words is Barbara Cartland, and she lies on a chaise longue while someone else writes down her dictation in any case."   Just a Girl

"The BIC For Her Amber Medium Ballpoint Pen (in pink) has made such a difference to my life. Just last week I had to sign my name, but I had one of those regular boy pens, and I got all the letters muddled up and they weren't even all on the page! LOLs! But when I tried writing my name today it was just incredible!!! All the letters were in the right order, The first letter was bigger and capitalised, they sat neatly on the line on the page, and they all fitted on the page! It took me a whole 12 minutes less too, and now I can dedicate all this spare time to cooking, hoovering, ironing, and vajazzling my noo-nah *giggles*."   Sparkle Kitten Girl

"Oh. My. God. I've been doing it all wrong. There was me thinking I didn't need to worry about whether my writing implement sufficiently reflected my gender. Thank you so much Bic for showing me the error of my ways. Perhaps Bic will also bring out a new range of pink (or purple) feminine spanners, screwdrivers, electric drills and angle grinders so that I can carry out my job as a bicycle mechanic without further embarrassing myself?"   Butch McCassidy

"Then - I saw them. First it was the pastel colours. Good, yes, but not clearly enough defined. A closer look and my heart skipped a beat. Could it be true? Pens `for her'? I don't want to go into detail, but I will tell you that I emitted sounds of euphoria I never thought humanly possible. Many tears were wept. Tears stained pink with feminine joy."   Happy Shopper

[kirstypiper]

I was compelled to contribute my own #amazon review for #bicforher (Taken with Instagram)

[2o3cose]

Ancora commenti sulla famigerata penna Bic For Her

“Everyone knows that when a woman gets her period, she is unable to maintain her grip on larger, manly sized pens due to loss of blood platelets. Finally, a company is addressing our needs!! This pen is light-weight enough even for the most anemic of ladies. Now I can write my grocery lists and love letters to my husband, no matter what time of the month it is! No more heavy, regular man pens for me!!!”

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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.