RIU Ladies' Lounge?

so...
between the obvious minority of womenfolk on riu and the fact that one of the levels of seniority is called "mr. ganja", i as a female member of RIU am starting to feel a bit marginalised... i'm sorry i know how most dudes *love* that word....
(i have friends in radical feminist circles that would be up in arms about the "mr. ganja" thing, but i'm a female grower -- we've had to get used the fact that the realworld cannabis industry tends to be male-dominated -- but i do find it a bit disheartening that that follows me onto my web presence.)

i was wondering if riu would consider starting a Ladies' Lounge?

now, before you all go getting your knickers in twist, i DO believe that if we're going to get a Ladies' room, in all fairness there ought to be a Men's room as well... i know it's a bit of a sausage party out there anyway but i also know that a lot of you tone down the grossness (*not looking right at StonedPony* ) just in case one of us dames might pop by. we'll be as tamponic in our room as we want, and you can be as phallic in your room as you want. i think that's fair.

as far as the "how can you tell you're all girls?" thing, i think a roomful of gals would know when an interloper came in (except maybe MediMary, who i thought was a chick until yesterday... oops.), and if, as a man, you manage to convince a roomful of us that you're one of us, i'd say you deserve to be in there anyway.

thank you for your consideration
mellokitty.

Fuck.........................ya wanna turn the sausagefest into sausage only?
Can I be a girl also?....................like maybe on tuesays or something.

OH HELL NO, i just think it'd be nice to have a high-estrogen zone too, girls need other girls sometimes.... (and trust me, no girl wants to hang in THAT zone ALL THE TIME....) *shudders*....

tuesday's taint's tits and tutus day.... only if you dress your dog up in drag and put it as your avi that day...

Sounds like a plan,I allready have our outfits picked out.

just so you know, i have a preference for leather and feathers.

That's a amazing coincidence indeed.
How ya feel about assless chaps and spurs?

isn't that a guy thing?

see? dude, you suck at being a chick.... lol
(^you can secretly take that as a compliment if you want^)

YAY ME!!!!

I'm thinking all the backhair woulda gave me away anyhows.
You'all need a mans help in there just holler.

(<-- even these girls could do with a bit of heavy lifting from time to time, i'm sure....)

i too thought medimary was feminized.

rzza said:

i too thought medimary was feminized.

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see? i'm not the only one....

i guess i kinda understand your need for a women's group, but at the same rate, i kinda don't like the whole were girls and your guy's separation thing.. first and foremost, we are all humans, and growers, and we should all be in this thing together.. i don't think that the breaking up into small groups does much for the whole group at all.. it just tends to bother me some what is all.. i guess that is my issues and not yours though mellokitty, so anyhoo's, there is another thread on here that really bothers me for the same reasons.. i'm not going to name the thread, but if you've been on here for any amount of time, you should know what i'm talking about.. i am surly not a sexist nor a racist for that matter, its just like i said, i don't like the fact that people feel the need to break up into small groups for whatever the reason maybe..

i don't know what else to say honestly.. that's just my two cents on the whole thing.. i like the one for all and all for one thing, and not the boys for boys and girls for girls thing, or what ever other group's people like to break themselves up into..

racerboy71 said:

i kinda don't like the whole were girls and your guy's separation thing..

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i didn't mean it in the sense of a 'separation' (the boy's and girls room suggestion was because there's almost always some dude who says, "well if you get a girl's whatever-whatever why shouldn't guys get our own whatever-whatever?") (i hear they butted up against a lot of that when they started the lotus cup, for instance). i meant more in the sense of, when i'm sick of being called a 'filthy' dirt grower, i go hide in the organic soil room for a while, that sort of thing.

i just think that it'd be nice, as a member of riu who has to deal daily with the objectification of women in the form of disembodied body parts, and read all sorts of generalisations about how we're all bitches and we're all crazy but dudes keep us around 'cuz we're good for fucking, to have a zone to go to to be free from that. that's all.

mellokitty said:

see? i'm not the only one....

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Oh Great!...I told Medimary...."U GO Girl!"...And she's ...A HE! He fooled me. LOL

I voted yes, but just so you ladies know....

Stoned Pony likes to cross dress and is very sensitive about how he/she looks. So don't be surprised if an appearance is made... Just make sure to say something nice about the hair....

geez i didnt wanna picture him in girls underwear, but it happened. eww

I voted for a ladies room as well.
Pay no attention to that blinking light in the A/C vent *Wink*.

racerboy: (with all due love and respect, because i do really think you're a smart guy): rereading my previous post, i realize i didn't make myself clear:
as a female grower, i deal with all sorts of discrimination in the real world ALL THE TIME. correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think you ever got low-balled and then sent your *female friend to meet with the SAME buyer with the SAME product to get $200 more a lb? this has happened to me more times than i can count. luckily i can just send my man now, he has better connex anyway.
i don't know how old you are, but i'm verging on middle aged -- not exactly a spring chicken, and i've been growing for over 15 years. i haven't heard of any guys my age complaining that dudes at hydro shops ask them if they know what ph is, or a myriad of other questions i usually don't have time for. (hint: i usually know what i want before i even walk into the store and i don't think it's any of the dudes-who-work-there's business whether it's my first grow or not, especially since it isn't, by over a decade.)
product pricing isn't the only thing we get lowballed over. our labour is quite often undervalued compared to some of the menfolk as well. one doesn't have to be a grower to experience this. look at walmart.

as a man i don't think you've had to deal with any of this. (again, correct me if i'm wrong.)
and, to lay all my cards on the table here (not trying to be exclusionary in the least here, for real): unless you've almost been raped on a grow job, you can't understand where i'm coming from. my 2cents.

Serapis said:

I voted yes, but just so you ladies know....

Stoned Pony likes to cross dress and is very sensitive about how he/she looks. So don't be surprised if an appearance is made... Just make sure to say something nice about the hair....

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LOLOL, i think we can make an exception for SP. s/he'd fit right in, with that clubfoot of [hers]

Imagine if they had such such a place. A place for a group of people with things in common to get together and talk....

Oh yeah they do, and look a group for girls... cannagirls