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I was really digging this pen until I read about it and realized it was made for women. :headsmack:

 

Cross Sauvage Giraffe:

http://www.artbrown.com/images/AT0316-4_NEW.jpg

 

I think I like it anyway........ :thumbup:

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ZeissIkon Antique

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I was really digging this pen until I read about it and realized it was made for women. :headsmack:

 

Cross Sauvage Giraffe:

http://www.artbrown.com/images/AT0316-4_NEW.jpg

 

I think I like it anyway........ :thumbup:

 

It's okay to love a woman's pen, but you'd better not try to take it from her without permission... :roflmho:

Does not always write loving messages.

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It looks a little girly, but I've liked girly pens/things and don't see a problem with using a women's pen.

Everyman, I will go with thee

and be thy guide,

In thy most need to go

by thy side.

-Knowledge

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I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. It's not like it says "THIS PEN IS MADE FOR WOMEN" on the barrel.

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Montegrappa NeroUno Linea - J. Herbin Poussière de Lune //. Aurora Optima Demonstrator - Aurora Black // Varuna Rajan - Kaweco Green // TWSBI Vac 700R - Visconti Purple

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No, I'm a girl and I most often use pens that were marketed to men. lol There's nothing wrong with it plus most people are too stupid to even notice. Don't worry about it and do what you want, today anything goes. ;)

I'd rather spend my money on pens instead of shoes and handbags.

 

 

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IMHO, the world would be a much better place in some cases if we could just stop categorizing things so much.

 

You have fine taste. That's an awesome looking pen.

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Joe in Seattle Antique

Joe in Seattle

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Nope. Most tools are neither male nor female.

"how do I know what I think until I write it down?"

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I was told by a salesperson that my favorite WE, Virginia Woolf, was a "womans" pen. Could be I guess. I'm not, BTW. I love that pen, its shape and features and the "Waves" motif. Even tried to read "The Waves". :headsmack: Mainly, it fit my hand perfectly as a writer. Still don't own one, but someday... :rolleyes:

 

I say, embrace the variety! :thumbup:

 

 

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IMHO, the world would be a much better place in some cases if we could just stop categorizing things so much.

+1

 

Enjoy what you love.

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I'm sure you are masculine enough to pull it off!

 

Do what you want --don't worry about labels.

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I am not a number

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Will it go well with the rest of your outfit?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of nothing at all...

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Pengrump

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Hey, if I can use a PFM (and I do!), you can use a pen that's ostensibly marketed to women.

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Will it go well with the rest of your outfit?

 

Totally!

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs135.snc1/5772_1205133730268_1286396989_571642_4101135_n.jpg

 

LOL!

 

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Doc H

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Do you have to lift up the cap to tell? Was never sure how to sex pens... :rolleyes:

"And gentlemen in England, now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day."

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That's a nice looking pen... maybe better in a different finish. Where did you hear that it's a women's pen? I kind of doubt that's official...

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The only thing that I find "womanly" about the pen is that it appears to be wasp-waisted. This is something that I believe appeals mainly to men, though I may be wrong. I do know that there are many men - including me - who are attracted to women who have this basic shape. Though I date myself, I refer to the appeal of Marilyn Monroe, Mamie Van Doren, or Jane Russell, to cite a few actresses who had a very "feminine," i.e., zoftig shape. If my impression of the pen is accurate, as judged from the photo, it seems as though the salesperson meant not that the pen appealed to women, but that the pen appealed to men who found women appealing!

 

Regardless, a very attractive pen. Use it in good health. :clap1:

 

I refer to the region between the bottom of the posted cap and the top of the section. If the pen were a woman she would be a little zoftig in the tuches, but that is OK by me.

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I remember seeing the print ads in a magazine for your giraffe and a "zebra" pen (I thought that they had another pen in the ad -- forgive me if I am remembering wrong) but I do remember that nothing in the ad had the slightest feminine "slant" to it. I just thought the pens were different and interesting. I haven't read all posts, did you say what size nib you have on the pen? Is it a good writer? The pic in your post is fantastic and the pen looks great.

 

<<<I just noticed that I made it to my 200th post here commenting on your pen. Do I get a party or something? I'm going off to get my party hat.

 

<<<Never mind, I just posted elsewhere on my way to get my party hat. Now 201 posts. I guess I missed my window of opportunity to celebrate a landmark.

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I have a Honey Almond Visconti Opera that I think it looks quite "girly", but I still think it looks top.

Thanks

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