Comments on Gawking at Ari Spool

I'm sure the windows of the defunct Backstage thrift shop on Stranger Ave. has been noticed or slogged about already. Two former housemate women are featured, well, flatchested mama is the feature, the other girl just looks depressed (honestly though, she's a crackup). All we need is Lance Hammond (stranger, real change, etc) to take a photo of it with the perverted construction worker sleazebag (we found an opened jar of mayo next to his bed after he moved out! then we had a painting contest among the house members with Mayo Jar as the theme) and you'll have our funky house up on 19th circa '99. Anyhoo, WAY TO GO GIRLS! and way to go Ari

It's on Jezebel too...
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I like Ari, but I didn't buy her article at all. Women smoke pot. The end. She doesn't even quantify "stoner" in her piece--does it take getting every day? Multiple times a day? What exactly do we ladies need to do in order to earn our badges?

The only valid point made was regarding those hideously misogynistic posters littered about town. It would have been waaaay more interesting if she'd explored that topic a little more, or perhaps interviewed Hempfest organizers about what the fuck they were thinking with that shit.

Way to alienate half (yes, Ari, *half*) your audience, Hempfest.

I didn't buy Ari's piece either. Almost every woman I know smokes pot, and about half of them can smoke me under the table. I think that after 30 years old the art for both men and women is to learn how to be a FUNCTIONAL stoner. Yes Ari, you can have a mortgage, car payments, a great job and get shit done all while still being a total stoner.

i never knew ari was a girl.

makes sense - my daughter has a friend named ari. and she's a girl.

huh.

#3: A stoner is a person who smokes frequently, designated by the government as 10 or more times a month (two or three times a week).

#4: Yeah. . .that's exactly what I'm saying. Except that the women you know exist at about half the rate of similar type men. Remember, we are in an urban environment with lax pot-smoking rules, which might shift your (anecdotal and biased) evidence.

"And when a woman does smoke weed on film, she's not generally a cute, bumbling, child like Apatow's male characters."

Trying to think of counter examples -- the girls on That 70s Show, Claire Danes in Igby Goes Down, Jennifer Anniston in Friends With Money, Catherine Keener in at least one movie that I can't remember -- but maybe Ari's onto something. These are all kind of a stretch.

#7: Yeah, totally. They are all like that. I went through so many movies trying to find one credible example of a normal girl (in a modern time-setting) who just smokes some weed now and then. Haven't found one yet.

@8 - Hmm. I seem to recall that Jennifer Lopez's character in "The Cell" smokes a joint alone at one point, FWIW.

kudos ari,

next time you can come with me to take a pull off the gravity bong.

xoxo

why do I need to watch a movie about modern women smoking pot in order for me to make a decision about it myself? Grow up.

Y'know it's generally a good idea to find more than one source when writing an article that talks about "trends" (or "anti-trends" for that matter).

Not that women smoking weed isn't a potentially interesting subject, but this says less about women and more about Fiona.

I guess it works as an essay, but it seems to me the point was kind of lost.

This is funny because most of the people I've ever known to smoke pot are female.

As I was just about to enter grad school, a female lab mate of mine suggested that I study why it is that women seem so much more likely than men to phase out pot smoking in their late 20s/early 30s. I never pursued any serious study of the topic, but her suggestion did square pretty well with my own anecdotal observations of my late 20s/early 30s female friends. She was hypothesizing that some sort of interaction of THC with a life-stage-dependent change in the populations of estrogen receptors might have something to do with it.

She might be onto something with that, but it's just as likely that these women are just giving up for the lack of a good gravity bong in their lives.

I think I am quite possibly the only person under 35 and over 10 who has never smoked pot.

Oh yeah. I linked her up to the she sheet too: http://www.shesheet.com :) hope you don't mind

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