"On Girls Lending Pens," by TAYLOR MALI

Performed as part of Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club on February 22, 2007.

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[creolesocagirl]

I like the poem. It has a Dr. Seuss felling to it....does anyone else think so?

[lovelylostlady]

Two kinds of people;

1. The person who has fifty million pens at their disposal.

2. The person who never has a pen.

I am the second. It is CURSE. I swear that its a curse.

[voirinkeli]

On Girls Lending Penis?

[Gaz6231]

@piewackett1

You got all that from a story about trying to borrow a pen in class? I think you need to lay off the estrogen pills and take a fucking joke.

[CrazyLazySnazzyJazzy]

@piewackett1 And you're just another radical feminist who gets offended by the slightest things. You say you're pro-equality when, in fact, you're just anti-man. I happen to be a girl myself and I hate when my sex insists that they're the ones who are the victim. I bet you that if a man refused to open the door for you that you'd say, "How rude! What happened to chivalry and ladies' first?"

[HeavySystems]

I have a bunch of pens for drawing but rarely have one when I need one for work. How's that happen?

[Kitseri]

@piewackett1 Goodness. I'm the kind of girl this poem speaks of. I have easily two hundred pens right now--only a handful of which I'll actually share. I thought this was hilarious, truthful poetry. I suppose it's possible to find offense in everything, but people find some strange things to be upset about. </3

[rtuiy9898]

@piewackett1 offended by this rant, after watching it 2 times again, I see what you mean by him being sexist towards girls. But you have to admit, this guy is a freaking genius.

[rtuiy9898]

@piewackett1 Well, if you're a girl and you're offended by this video, I can probably understand where you're coming from. But you shouldn't take this video so seriously, what he said in this video doesn't apply to everyone. But it's true! There's always the one girl who has sixteen sacks full of pens while everyone else has none :P But, all aside, I found his speaking style funny. Not because it was supposedly sexist, but because it was legitimately funny. But I get what you mean when you feel

[ItalianChick93]

@piewackett1 I'm not sure if you're joking or not. First off it's 'dude,' not 'dood' (I should cite Mali's proofreading poem). All he was doing was making a point about how girls do tend to do say 'I have millions of pens but the one you want is the one I'm going to use and all the rest are crap' (I've observed my own classmates doing this) and turning it into humor. It's not about despising women. It's just poking a little fun at the silly things girls do.

[piewackett1]

"Girls", not women for starters. Anti-girl, anti-woman, not funny, and the mimicking of the stupid girl voice is especially irritating. I liked his teacher rant, but he's just another "liberal" white dood who despises women, but get pissed and indignant when his own rights are trampled on.

Feh.