When my artist friend Mary Yacoob excitedly emailed me a link to ‘bic for her’, the new pen for girls and women, after I’d checked it wasn’t April Fools Day, I started to worry about her sanity. Happily she reassured me that she also found the idea offensive but that I should check out the reviews. This little pack of pens has garnered a massive 288 customer reviews on Amazon, compared to just 9 for a standard bic pen multipack. The reviews are funny and angry at the same time. Saddler1993’s pithy review is typical, “I think this is possibly the best thing to happen since my Great Aunt Maisie chained herself to John Menzies in the ‘Drawing Pins For Women’ campaign of 1922. God bless you girl…. how far we have travelled!” I share a few of my favourite reviews here but if you’re ever bored in the office or the classroom or anywhere else, I’d recommend working your way through a few of them, they range in style from Victorian romance to dystopian science fiction. Continue reading “No more pens envy: Bic market female biros”