Pens are better because their writing looks cooler, fancier, and also darker, and without pens you wouldn't have been able to make that "pen island" joke in middle school. Real men are able to admit their mistakes and showcase them instead of just erasing history and pretending it never happened (in other words, pencils are for Stalinists and people who support them). Pencil-dicks are the best of both worlds but I think you have to get stabbed by a radioactive pencil first to get one or something so it's out of the question for most people, and plus people might stare at you weird if you just unzip your pants in the middle of class and start splooging ink all over your paper with your Papermate PencilPenis 3000 (plus how would you even sharpen a pencil-dick?).