Look like a girl, think like a man....

[achieve6]

if there was a competition for the infantilisation of women, sexualisation of women and assertions that women can't do business, BIC have won!

www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/stnews/2015/08/11/Bic-issues-apology-for-think-like-a-man-Womens-Day-post

[AnneofGreenTables]

Just when you think it's 2015 BIC go and do something like that

Although weren't they the ones that invented a slim pink women's biro in case our weak girly hands couldn't cope with the infinite power and almighty strength of... a normal biro?

No idea why I'm surprised actually

[achieve6]

Indeed they were! But that makes me even more surprised that they didn't learn the first time.

also "look like a girl" - eww.......

[WhirlpoolGalaxyM51]

They couldn't have got more wrong in if they'd tried!

[Indomitable]

I'm going to have to start boycotting them aren't I? This is going to be awkward...

[EBearhug]

Don't forget that Bic have form - they made those pens for women.

[BakingCookiesAndShit]

Well, I know I can't hold a man pen in my lady hand, so maybe the pink lady pens were a good idea?

Pahahaha.

No. They weren't.

[50ShadesofNope]

At least the comments on the Bic for women page on Amazon give you a little hope for humanity. It's encouraging to see so much satire coming from something that many would see as totally innocuous!!

This new campaign is laughable though, and their 'apology' is pathetic. How about apologising for promoting misogyny and idiocy rather than apologising that people were offended. I'm just glad people seem to recognise it for the cop out it is.

[PlentyOfPubeGardens]

This is an old . I think BIC missed the point a bit.

[partialderivative]

Have you seen this YouTube clip showing Uni of Alabama recruitment vid for a sorority group.

Surely it must be a piss take

[Vatersay]

Oh my! Do you think any women work for Bic?

[YonicScrewdriver]

Partial

Can you clarify for me why that amateur 'video' (not even a video, a series of stills over singing a nursery rhyme) by some uni students was a useful parallel to a glossy professional advertising campaign by a global brand?

[OneFlewOverTheDodosNest]

Happy Womens Day (sic) from Bic. I'm quite impressed with quite how insulting they've managed to be in so few words.

Look like a girl - yuck.