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Watch: Beware The Fluffy Pen

20 Apr 2020

Words by Luís Azevedo

Woman in pink top concentrating whilst working at a desk with laptop and other items.
Woman in pink top concentrating whilst working at a desk with laptop and other items.
Is this beloved sta­tionery item used by film­mak­ers as a sym­bol of evil?

The lat­est print edi­tion of Lit­tle White Lies con­tains a bril­liant essay by New York-based writer Abbey Ben­der on the cryp­tic mean­ing of that most cher­ished and seem­ing­ly whole­some of sta­tion­ary items: the pink fluffy pen.

We love the piece so much that we want­ed to do some­thing extra with it. So, with the help of edi­tor Luís Azeve­do and friend of the mag Eliz­a­beth Sankey, who pro­vid­ed the voiceover nar­ra­tion, we’re pleased to present ​‘Beware The Fluffy Pen’ in video form.

Get more Lit­tle White Lies

Watch below to see Abbey’s the­o­ry put into prac­tice in films like Clue­less, Legal­ly Blonde and Gone Girl. There’s much more to this colour­ful girly acces­so­ry than meets the eye…

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