# Finally Women are able to use writing instruments! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020 "2012-08-29T09:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/21 "2012-08-29T18:01:30Z")
Am I the only one who sees all the things marketed “for her” and wonders just who this chick is anyway and why she needs so much stuff? She certainly rakes it in at Christmas, I can tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/22 "2012-08-29T18:03:30Z")
But they’re still not allowed to drink Dr Pepper 10. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/23 "2012-08-29T18:11:26Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > But they’re still not allowed to drink Dr Pepper 10. Or eat [Yorkies](http://www.funraniumlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Yorkie-Bar.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/24 "2012-08-29T18:18:34Z")
Smart women get all their pens from [PenIsland.net](http://PenIsland.net). ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/25 "2012-08-29T19:58:25Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > To be fair, its got to kind of suck to be the marketing guy that has to justify his paycheck by coming up with new and innovative ways to market pens. Evidently their solution was to give all of the razor marketing people jobs in the pens business. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/26 "2012-08-30T15:35:15Z")
Dear Bic, Your pens make my ass look fat. Sincerely, Disappointed ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/27 "2012-08-30T15:38:17Z")
I have heard many blonde women are complaining they don’t have a left handed version of this pen available. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/28 "2012-08-30T15:45:17Z")
Bitches be writin’. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/29 "2012-08-30T15:57:50Z")
If I find one of these pens, am I allowed to use it? Will the pen fail to work in my oversized man-hands or will it work but I will be subjected to ridicule from the people around me when they see me using a lady-pen? I need to know this stuff! I might have already touched a pen made exclusively for women and not even known. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/30 "2012-08-30T16:04:25Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > If I find one of these pens, am I allowed to use it? Will the pen fail to work in my oversized man-hands or will it work but I will be subjected to ridicule from the people around me when they see me using a lady-pen? I need to know this stuff! I might have already touched a pen made exclusively for women and not even known. It will automatically make you gay. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/31 "2012-08-30T16:56:39Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > It will automatically make you gay. Yup. Before you know it you will have written a successful Broadway musical. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/32 "2012-08-30T17:05:38Z")
I love the tags on Amazon items when they get a bunch of satirical comments. ‘horses need pens too’ and ‘pen envy’. LOL. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/33 "2012-08-30T18:34:59Z")
But can they write in the snow like a penhis can? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/34 "2012-08-30T22:09:37Z")
I got a package from American Scientific & Surplus today, and one of the items I ordered was a 10 color pen. The barrel is hot pink…and thicker than my thumb. I can write with it just fine. My pen is the envy of all who see it. Yes, I’ve used that joke before, but it’s still JUST AS FUNNY now. I had another multipen, but I left it in my pocket when I did the laundry. It turns out that the pen wasn’t machine washable. The ink, however, WAS wash’n’wear. If you wash it, you wear it. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/35 "2012-08-30T22:53:10Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Personally, I think “girly” designs for tools can have some merit, at least for discouraging tool theft by husbands (mine has a bad habit of making off with my pliers, wire cutters, and such that I use for crafts). I did a plumbing course a few months back, the tutor said a guy he used to work with had all pink tools for exactly that reason- the other guys laughed at him, but he was the only one who always finished the job with all the tools he started with… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/36 "2012-08-31T00:51:39Z")
A friend of mine was the one who got the ball rolling on this one - she posted the first review and invited a bunch of us took join in. I never had time to write one myself, sadly, but it’s still cool that something my friend did is being talked about so widely. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/37 "2012-08-31T15:25:43Z")
> [@jlzania](#): > > Walked into the local hardware store. It was promoting tools and toolbelts for woman. Everything either had a pink handle or was pink. Made me all stabby. It’s a great way to keep your husband for taking your tools though. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/38 "2012-08-31T16:16:30Z")
Oh great, yet another corporation that was formerly the sole purview of strapping males caves to the shrieking demands of female harpies. Next you’re gonna tell me that there will be women at Augusta! GTFOH with that shit! ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/39 "2012-08-31T16:44:39Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I did a plumbing course a few months back, the tutor said a guy he used to work with had all pink tools for exactly that reason- the other guys laughed at him, but he was the only one who always finished the job with all the tools he started with… 😃 The hard hats for contractors are all pink at my worksite for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020/40 "2012-08-31T16:56:02Z")
When will they make a pen for us guys? The greasy meat sticks I have for fingers simply cannot grip anything without at least a 60 grit sandpaper-like surface; lest it flies across the room and sticks into the oaken logs of my cabin under the 400 foot-pounds of torque I narurally use attempting to write even the first word of my book, _“Mustasches are the Eyebrows of Our Mouthes.”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-women-are-able-to-use-writing-instruments/633020.md?page=1)