Follies of the Madmen #281

Who's the first one who will send one to Donald Trump?

@Yudith: He can buy is own!!

Dman, Paul, more sexist stuff!?! 😛

Smaller pen, less material cost, but same price?

So, if the ink supply is the same as the "real man's" pen, then they have been selling us air all these years, where they could have put in more ink. Great.

@Frau Beaverhausen: You're not taking into account that Parker has created a model of their pens that will be reaching a much smaller (no pun intended) market demographic as fewer women have been taught to write and of those that have been taught have less need to write anything that would require anything more than a Crayola product. So, because of projected fewer sales, the price per unit must represent a larger percentage of the production costs to offset this.

Well, that's one explanation. I wondered if maybe it was because while women were taught to write, they had no place to use said skill except in the making of grocery lists, because women had no use with fancy pens while barefoot and pregnant.

Finally a REAL WOMAN!!! I'm in lust love!

Patty, you takin' notes?

I have a vague recollection of my boy scout troop's visit to the Parker Pen company in Janesville in 1959. It was followed by a visit to the Fisher Body plant, which was much more exciting for a bunch of 11- and 12-year-old boys (and probably the middle-aged scoutmaster, as well).

Wait a minute, I keep hearing women want it bigger and make fun of it if it's smaller.

GFinkS, that image is ripe for Photoshopping.

And yet... they have a point. A good fountain pen, at least, is very much a matter of personal taste. What fits one hand, and one writing style, will not fit another as well. Some people like a fat pen, some a slender one; some people prefer a pen the size of their palm, some think a longer one has a better balance. I wouldn't be surprised at all if women, whose hands are on average smaller, would on average prefer a smaller pen.
Of course, it's not really done to assume this is true for every single woman out there, but as a reason for putting an smaller model pen on the market, it's not that stupid.

Honestly, it's not that bad.
Women do tend to have smaller hands than men, and so some of them might prefer a slightly smaller pen. And it's the same design and the same ink as the guys' model, as opposed to how Bic's attempt at a ladies' pen a few years ago, which had a shape I can only describe as "voluptuous" and was available in pink or purple.