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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat product!
ByA keen skieron 3 September 2012
My husband has never allowed me to write, as he doesn't want me touching mens pens. However when I saw this product, I decided to buy it (using my pocket money) and so far it has been fabulous! Once I had learnt to write, the feminine colour and the grip size (which was more suited to my delicate little hands) has enabled me to vent thoughts about new recipe ideas, sewing and gardening. My husband is less pleased with this product as he believes it will lead to more independence and he hates the feminine tingling sensation (along with the visions of fairies and rainbows) he gets whenever he picks it up.
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1.0 out of 5 starsInsufficent
ByMr. J. Stevenson 28 August 2012
Normally I only use pens designed and created for real men, in colours appropriate to such instruments of masculinity - black like my chest hair or blue like the steely glint of my eyes, or the metallic paintwork of my convertible Mustang sportscar. Imagine then the situation I found myself in when, upon taking delivery of another shipment of motorbike parts and footballs, I reached for and grasped not my normal BIC pen, but a `BIC for Her Amber Medium Ballpoint Pen' (evidently ordered by my well-meaning, but ill-informed girlfriend whilst my back was turned). I knew something was wrong when I had to physically restrain my hands, gnarled and worn from a lifetime of rock-climbing and shark wrestling, from crushing the fragile implement like a Faberge egg. Things only went downhill from there.
Normally my hand writing is defined and strong, as if chiselled in granite by the Greek gods themselves, however upon signing my name I noticed that my signature was uncharacteristically meandering and looping. More worryingly the dots above the I's manifested themselves as hearts, and I found myself finishing off the signature with a smiley face and kisses. Obviously I had no choice but to challenge the delivery man to a gun fight on the rim of an erupting volcano in order to reassert my dominance. Had I not won this honourable duel this particular mistake might have resulted in a situation that no amount of expensive single malt whiskey and Cuban cigars could banish. I leave this review here as a warning to all men about the dangers of using this particular device, and suffice-it-to-say will return to signing my name with a nail gun as normal.
Normally my hand writing is defined and strong, as if chiselled in granite by the Greek gods themselves, however upon signing my name I noticed that my signature was uncharacteristically meandering and looping. More worryingly the dots above the I's manifested themselves as hearts, and I found myself finishing off the signature with a smiley face and kisses. Obviously I had no choice but to challenge the delivery man to a gun fight on the rim of an erupting volcano in order to reassert my dominance. Had I not won this honourable duel this particular mistake might have resulted in a situation that no amount of expensive single malt whiskey and Cuban cigars could banish. I leave this review here as a warning to all men about the dangers of using this particular device, and suffice-it-to-say will return to signing my name with a nail gun as normal.
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ByMr. J. Stevenson 28 August 2012
Normally I only use pens designed and created for real men, in colours appropriate to such instruments of masculinity - black like my chest hair or blue like the steely glint of my eyes, or the metallic paintwork of my convertible Mustang sportscar. Imagine then the situation I found myself in when, upon taking delivery of another shipment of motorbike parts and footballs, I reached for and grasped not my normal BIC pen, but a `BIC for Her Amber Medium Ballpoint Pen' (evidently ordered by my well-meaning, but ill-informed girlfriend whilst my back was turned). I knew something was wrong when I had to physically restrain my hands, gnarled and worn from a lifetime of rock-climbing and shark wrestling, from crushing the fragile implement like a Faberge egg. Things only went downhill from there.
Normally my hand writing is defined and strong, as if chiselled in granite by the Greek gods themselves, however upon signing my name I noticed that my signature was uncharacteristically meandering and looping. More worryingly the dots above the I's manifested themselves as hearts, and I found myself finishing off the signature with a smiley face and kisses. Obviously I had no choice but to challenge the delivery man to a gun fight on the rim of an erupting volcano in order to reassert my dominance. Had I not won this honourable duel this particular mistake might have resulted in a situation that no amount of expensive single malt whiskey and Cuban cigars could banish. I leave this review here as a warning to all men about the dangers of using this particular device, and suffice-it-to-say will return to signing my name with a nail gun as normal.
Normally my hand writing is defined and strong, as if chiselled in granite by the Greek gods themselves, however upon signing my name I noticed that my signature was uncharacteristically meandering and looping. More worryingly the dots above the I's manifested themselves as hearts, and I found myself finishing off the signature with a smiley face and kisses. Obviously I had no choice but to challenge the delivery man to a gun fight on the rim of an erupting volcano in order to reassert my dominance. Had I not won this honourable duel this particular mistake might have resulted in a situation that no amount of expensive single malt whiskey and Cuban cigars could banish. I leave this review here as a warning to all men about the dangers of using this particular device, and suffice-it-to-say will return to signing my name with a nail gun as normal.
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Bydaveyclaytonon 16 August 2012
I bought this pen (in error, evidently) to write my reports of each day's tree felling activities in my job as a lumberjack. It is no good. It slips from between my calloused, gnarly fingers like a gossamer thread gently descending to earth between two giant redwood trunks.
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ByA keen skieron 3 September 2012
My husband has never allowed me to write, as he doesn't want me touching mens pens. However when I saw this product, I decided to buy it (using my pocket money) and so far it has been fabulous! Once I had learnt to write, the feminine colour and the grip size (which was more suited to my delicate little hands) has enabled me to vent thoughts about new recipe ideas, sewing and gardening. My husband is less pleased with this product as he believes it will lead to more independence and he hates the feminine tingling sensation (along with the visions of fairies and rainbows) he gets whenever he picks it up.
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ByHot Commodityon 28 August 2012
How are you supposed to use these without paper made for girls? All I could find around the house is paper for mens, at least that's what I assumed because there was no specific packaging indicating otherwise. I'm very frustrated now. Hurry up and release the paper so us girls can write good too.
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I am writing this review on behalf of my wife who, unfortunately, does not possess a women's keyboard - despite us having searched high and low for one so that she might finally access the pleasures of typing. Each time she attempts to use my man-keyboard she simply faints on the spot and can only be resurrected through the vigorous wafting of smelling salts whilst I sing a gentle song to her about kittens, cushions and lace-making.
After driving home from work in my man-car recently my wife excitedly met me on the driveway (taking care not to leave the border of the garden without my permission). Dressed in her flowered cooking-apron and sporting a pair of pink rubber gloves (do doubt fresh from a day of cooking and cleaning) she began talking a nonsense about some she-pen she had heard about at her weekly sewing group and asked if she would be allowed to have one for herself if she promised to use it carefully and only when the children were out of the house so as not to distress them. After initially dismissing the idea as dangerous gobbledygook I was astonished to find after some intense research in my man-library that a pen for females had indeed been developed following years of extensive research and vigorous testing after the idea was originally (and quite rightly) dismissed as an impossible and ludicrous dream of the early feminist movement.
I thought about allowing my wife her very own pen long and hard and, after much consideration and discussing the idea with our local minister, I decided that we should move with the modern times and take a risk. Imagine my dismay and confusion after only being able to find this wildly ill-thought out multi-pack of not one but TWELVE she-pens!!! Twelve!!! Have BiC lost the plot here!? Despite my best hopes and faith in my wife's needle-work I feared she would get into all manner of trouble attempting to get to grips with only her first singular she-pen, imagine what horrors could unfold with 12 of the damn things! Needless to say a sharp u-turn was required and we have shelved the idea, much to my wife's dismay, and will instead wait for a more sensible option.
Of course this has left my wife extremely distressed, not to mention very upset at now having been shunned by our local womens support group who accuse her of being ''behind-the-times'' and ''out of touch with modern feminism''. Tragically she hasn't been invited to a single coffee morning or bake-sale since and spends most of her days staring out of the kitchen window with a hollow look in her eyes.
Very disappointing indeed and I would urge anyone thinking about buying these for their wife (or any other female) to consider the consequences carefully and proceed with caution.
After driving home from work in my man-car recently my wife excitedly met me on the driveway (taking care not to leave the border of the garden without my permission). Dressed in her flowered cooking-apron and sporting a pair of pink rubber gloves (do doubt fresh from a day of cooking and cleaning) she began talking a nonsense about some she-pen she had heard about at her weekly sewing group and asked if she would be allowed to have one for herself if she promised to use it carefully and only when the children were out of the house so as not to distress them. After initially dismissing the idea as dangerous gobbledygook I was astonished to find after some intense research in my man-library that a pen for females had indeed been developed following years of extensive research and vigorous testing after the idea was originally (and quite rightly) dismissed as an impossible and ludicrous dream of the early feminist movement.
I thought about allowing my wife her very own pen long and hard and, after much consideration and discussing the idea with our local minister, I decided that we should move with the modern times and take a risk. Imagine my dismay and confusion after only being able to find this wildly ill-thought out multi-pack of not one but TWELVE she-pens!!! Twelve!!! Have BiC lost the plot here!? Despite my best hopes and faith in my wife's needle-work I feared she would get into all manner of trouble attempting to get to grips with only her first singular she-pen, imagine what horrors could unfold with 12 of the damn things! Needless to say a sharp u-turn was required and we have shelved the idea, much to my wife's dismay, and will instead wait for a more sensible option.
Of course this has left my wife extremely distressed, not to mention very upset at now having been shunned by our local womens support group who accuse her of being ''behind-the-times'' and ''out of touch with modern feminism''. Tragically she hasn't been invited to a single coffee morning or bake-sale since and spends most of her days staring out of the kitchen window with a hollow look in her eyes.
Very disappointing indeed and I would urge anyone thinking about buying these for their wife (or any other female) to consider the consequences carefully and proceed with caution.
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Byjonnyon 20 August 2012
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.
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.
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BySterling Archeron 28 August 2012
While I have always held Bic products in high regard, I cannot give them a good rating on this one. Don't they realize what they've done? Now we are going to have women running around, all willy-nilly, writing things with pens.
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ByM Hollowayon 20 August 2012
I never did very well at school. I wanted to learn and it felt like all the words I needed were right there in my head, but I just couldn't get them onto the paper in front of me. If I really pushed myself, I could sometimes manage to draw pretty flowers in the margins but this didn't please Sir and I was soon in all the bottom sets. What really confused me is that I had no problems in cookery or textiles. At the time I didn't understand why I could grip and use a wooden spoon or sewing needle but couldn't properly hold my black-coloured pen for more than 45 seconds without dropping it on the floor and weeping.
Things were a bit better when I left school to go and work sweeping up hair at the local salon - yet again, the broom seemed to just fit into my grip as if it was meant to be there - and I saved up to buy a pink laptop. I still had trouble writing for a long time because, although the case was pink, the keys weren't designed for female eyes which, as we all know, struggle to discern between shades of black and grey. I could write for about 4 minutes at a time, though, and that's how I found out about these wonderful pens for girls like me.
As soon as they arrived, I was soothed by the pink packaging - I'd been feeling stressed after driving back from work because my hands just won't stay on the black, leather-effect steering wheel in my cute mini. Anyway, I quickly found a piece of notepaper with pictures of kittens round the edges and had a go at writing my name. It was amazing! The pen just stayed in place between my fingers, just like it always had for the boys in my class at school. Well, in no time I'd filled a whole notepad and had to go and get another one!
Now I've gone back to night school and hope to realise my ambition of enrolling on a childcare course next year. I'm also halfway through writing an erotic novel set in Victorian times - but with vampires!
My only criticism of these wonderful pens is that I get a bit bored with all 12 looking the same. I get around this my customising each pack. At the moment, the pen I have in use is covered in stripes of glitter and I glued a pink pompom and one of those diamanté charms you get on mobile phones (I couldn't fit any more on my phone) onto the top. I think BIC should start adding pens like this to their range because some women find it difficult to hold tubes of superglue properly - I asked the 6 year old boy who lives next door to help me.
Things were a bit better when I left school to go and work sweeping up hair at the local salon - yet again, the broom seemed to just fit into my grip as if it was meant to be there - and I saved up to buy a pink laptop. I still had trouble writing for a long time because, although the case was pink, the keys weren't designed for female eyes which, as we all know, struggle to discern between shades of black and grey. I could write for about 4 minutes at a time, though, and that's how I found out about these wonderful pens for girls like me.
As soon as they arrived, I was soothed by the pink packaging - I'd been feeling stressed after driving back from work because my hands just won't stay on the black, leather-effect steering wheel in my cute mini. Anyway, I quickly found a piece of notepaper with pictures of kittens round the edges and had a go at writing my name. It was amazing! The pen just stayed in place between my fingers, just like it always had for the boys in my class at school. Well, in no time I'd filled a whole notepad and had to go and get another one!
Now I've gone back to night school and hope to realise my ambition of enrolling on a childcare course next year. I'm also halfway through writing an erotic novel set in Victorian times - but with vampires!
My only criticism of these wonderful pens is that I get a bit bored with all 12 looking the same. I get around this my customising each pack. At the moment, the pen I have in use is covered in stripes of glitter and I glued a pink pompom and one of those diamanté charms you get on mobile phones (I couldn't fit any more on my phone) onto the top. I think BIC should start adding pens like this to their range because some women find it difficult to hold tubes of superglue properly - I asked the 6 year old boy who lives next door to help me.
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ByAndrea Coutu from Consultant Journalon 27 August 2012
For years, I've struggled as an author. I've written several books on consulting - including Consulting Fees and Side Jobs - and I've been using a computer because my girly fingers could just not grasp a pen. I've been plodding along, typing on clickety-clackety keyboards, and using sophisticated computer technology. In fact, sometimes that little Microsoft Paperclip pops up and says, "It looks like you're writing an ebook...."
Thank goodness someone has identified my problem! Until I saw these pens, I had no idea that I was being forced to write as a woman in a man's world. Though I'm sitting here in a room of my own, occasionally tearing strips of yellow wallpaper down, I've been feeling like something isn't quite right...almost like that feeling that maybe there is a writer's aid that is the best a man can get. Before I got the computer and started earning bits of money here and there as an authoress, I worked as a simple scullery maid and hoped that my virtue would be rewarded. Now I am finally vindicated!
With these pens, I anticipate that I can achieve the same rewards that men have. I will be able to look after my own reproductive rights. Relieve myself in dark corners. Marry a woman. Share in the financial repercussions of pregnancy and child rearing. Be heard in scientific and business conferences. Wear one simple outfit with a few changes of tie and shirt and never worry again about being called promiscuous or uptight. Walk down the street and be confident that I am safe. Go to any school in any part of the world. And, Mom, I feel fresh, too!
Thank goodness for pens for women like me. But where is the instruction manual? How's a gal like me to figure out how this pen thing works? Perhaps I can ask a man to write it out for me.
Thank goodness someone has identified my problem! Until I saw these pens, I had no idea that I was being forced to write as a woman in a man's world. Though I'm sitting here in a room of my own, occasionally tearing strips of yellow wallpaper down, I've been feeling like something isn't quite right...almost like that feeling that maybe there is a writer's aid that is the best a man can get. Before I got the computer and started earning bits of money here and there as an authoress, I worked as a simple scullery maid and hoped that my virtue would be rewarded. Now I am finally vindicated!
With these pens, I anticipate that I can achieve the same rewards that men have. I will be able to look after my own reproductive rights. Relieve myself in dark corners. Marry a woman. Share in the financial repercussions of pregnancy and child rearing. Be heard in scientific and business conferences. Wear one simple outfit with a few changes of tie and shirt and never worry again about being called promiscuous or uptight. Walk down the street and be confident that I am safe. Go to any school in any part of the world. And, Mom, I feel fresh, too!
Thank goodness for pens for women like me. But where is the instruction manual? How's a gal like me to figure out how this pen thing works? Perhaps I can ask a man to write it out for me.
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ByButch McCassidyon 16 August 2012
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? Luckily my male colleagues have managed to keep their disapproval of my use of their masculine tools to themselves. I'm so ashamed. And re-educated as to my place in society. Thanks again Bic!
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