By Sesali B. • @BadFatBlackGirl • 11 years ago

WATCH: Bic is helping women be better writers and better women

As a writer, I’m graciously humbled that Bic finally decided to make a pen for my needs. My diary is never going to be the same. Not only are they made for women in sleekness and style, but they named it Cristal! She’s going to be my new BFF, I just know it!

Check out this great video from Eudora Peterson that shows how awesome (and meaningful to women’s lives) this pen really is!

“It’s half breast pump. You know you can write with your own breast milk”

And look! They got even got Ellen Degeneres to do a commercial for them!

Seriously, Maura Judkins makes a great point this WashingtonPost piece about the line:

“Bic’s real mistake wasn’t making pink and other pastel pens, it was explicitly labeling them “for women.” There are plenty of products that don’t raise anyone’s hackles because we’ve grown accustomed to the gendered colors, for better or for worse, since birth.”

And she would be correct. I’ve bought more than my fair share of pink stuff–because it was pink–but this was overkill. Gags.

 Does anyone have time to write up a transcript in the comments?

Feministing's resident "sexpert", Sesali is a published writer and professional shit talker. She is a queer Black girl, fat girl, and trainer. She was the former Training Director at the United States Student Association and later a member of the Youth Organizing team at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She received her bachelors in Women's and Gender Studies from Depaul University in 2012 and is currently pursuing a master's in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. A self identified "trap" feminist, and trained with a reproductive justice background, her interests include the intersections of feminism and: pop culture, youth culture, social media, hip hop, girlhood, sexuality, race, gender, and Beyonce. Sesali joined the team in 2010 as one of the winners of our So You Think You Can Blog contest.

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