Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this one!

Bic have released Bic For Her, a line of pens for just ladies. They are your everyday ballpoint pens except that the outer casings are in pink or purple, so that is how you know who can use them.

The first customer review is from Andrea, who is a very clearly a Bic employee:

OK - so I admit it, I have a pink diary, pink laptop and even a pink phone. But now I have a really good quality pink pen!! - It is really comfortable to use, writes smoothly and lets face it, it is great to have a pen that is distinctive. It stops your friends from pinching it as you immediately recognise that it is yours!! (although as it comes with 11 others, I have given my BFF one! Great price for 12 pens of this quality.


She gets called out for being a plant. Reviewers then proceed to have lots and lots of fun in the comments. A small selection of reviews:

( I am a huge fan of the gender binary. Without it, it's very hard to work out who to oppress )

ETA: The people on Metafilter are also having a jolly good laugh over this.

Tanya Gold writes a piece for the Guardian's Comment is Free section. It begins with this headline: Men want us lobotomised.

Oh, goody. The article is about her experience with a speed-dating night, in which she pretended to be a human rights lawyer, an economist, and a vapid florist, among other things. Shockingly, the men preferred the giggly florist to the woman who told them not to wear leather shoes, and so Tanya concludes with this: Everything my mother has ever told me about men is true.

Predictably, the comments are full of indignation, "Deleted by Moderator," assertions that her 'experiment' is not very scientific, and people pointing out that a speed-dating night at a pub is not likely to bring out the best and brightest in humanity, particularly if your opening salvo is, "I'm reading Heidegger." There are some funny bits, however (and not just the fictional cats named Roe and Wade).

AllyF: But then when they say 'You're late, again! Why are you always late?' you can bring in Heidegger.

'Because you are thinking in three-dimensional time, when time incorporates being and is in fact four dimensional.'

Then you sleep on the sofa.

Oh and...

'Well darling, technically since the bathroom door is currently shut, I'd like to referenence Schrodinger and suggest that toilet seat is in fact currently in a state of both upness and downness simultaneously.'

Then sleep on the sofa for a week.

Bonus lolz: someone asking if this Tanya Gold is the same one who wrote this article for the Daily Mail in which she asks Santa to "Please send me a plutocrat with a kind heart for Christmas.... So I can come here every year."

Six months ago, agilebrit defriended ginmar stating her reasons in her own journal, basically saying she disagreed with the things ginmar was saying.

Fast forward to now, and ginmar has found the entry and is calling the op and everyone who commented cowardly bitches and saying to one, "You're that professional virgin, aren't you? No wonder you can't handle anything more thna (sic) black or white."

Update: "I was never on your friends list!"