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According to an article in The Stranger, "Smoking pot is a guy thing. Guys are the ones who deal, buy, and smoke. In 2005, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stated that adult males were 50 percent more likely to have smoked marijuana in the last month than females." Could be! Or maybe it's just that women lie more about their stonerosity because it's so much less acceptable for women to look lazy.
Feministing advances this theory in response to the next bit of the article, which talks about how:
Men are allowed to be lazy—being stoned is part of their farting, pajama-wearing, video-game-playing pantheon of acceptable male relaxation techniques ....Their sloth is even kind of adorable. But modern women are not allowed to be lazy, adorable stoners. Women have to go to college (which they're now doing at higher rates than men), and then get their careers going quickly, before their biological clocks run out. Then they have to have kids and take them to all of their activities. There is no time for women to be slovenly and relax—and if women do relax, it has to be at a gym.Huh! So smoking pot is a feminist act? Personally, I'd hesitate to classify it as such. After all, smoking pot is retarded, and everyone knows that men are stupider than women. Want an example of why smoking pot is retarded? It took me like fifteen minutes to think of the name of the movie that Bridget Fonda is a stoner chick in so that I could image Google it for this post, and I ended up needing to enlist outside help.
Toke Like A Girl [The Stranger via Feministing]
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you had to consult julia allison to help you with a pot-smoking post?!?! oh emily....
Mary Louise Parker makes dealing look so good, though.
More MILF Weed please.
Jackie Mason.
Women do smoke pot, they just do it in a responsible manner. For instance, when I was attending CU-Boulder I would make sure that I had finished any schoolwork I needed to do before breaking out my personal one-hitter.
She is the best part of that movie. Bah DeNiro/Tarantino!
What IS the name of that Bridget Fonda movie?
Doobioous.
Still, some women may avoid the herb because of concerns about munchies and weight gain.
BULL.
SHIT.
This is like saying women have less sexual partners than men.
Women fuck, smoke and party like every other person on this planet.
Well, maybe not so much in the Middle East.
But, if it wasn't for the insecure male dominated secular governments, ALL women would be human beings.
@Helman: It's Jackie Brown... and if you're looking for a female role model, you can't go wrong with ass-kicking Pam Grier.
Jackie Brown? Smoking all those "concentration sticks" has finally paid off! Yay music school. What were we talking about?
I'm proud to be a closet smoker. The only difference between me and the image you automatically get when you picture the typical stoner, is that I know when to allocate my slovenly time and thus do it accordingly. You must know your limits and your skills when under those influences. Studying? No. Cleaning my entire apartment in 2 hours when I haven't for two weeks? Yes.
apparently The Stranger isn't a fan of Weeds.
@Smitros: Or, being so high and stoned, they don't mind the fat hairy bastard inserting his penis into her vagina.
The two biggest stoners I knew in college were my friends Whitney and Cara - they could smoke any guy under the table. I would be passed out on the floor and they would still be hitting the bong hours later.
This is probably more healthy anyway, Emily.
Reviving the Cilia.
@KarenUhOh:
of course my phone had to ring at the exact moment I read that. My name just came out a garbled giggle, and I had to control myself while responding to a question that pertained to head injuries, of all things.
3 1/2 DAYS TO GO!
Just be a functional stoner and you're all set. How else do you think I get all my tedious errands done? But you have to beware of the occasional mishaps like coming home with a diamond-encrusted lint roller by Jakob the Jeweler ... "it just looked so pretty!"
No. Women are just good liars. And good multi-taskers. I can smoke a joint and go about the business of the day with no problem.
But you stand on the street polling people about their drug habits? Dude, I don't know what the fuuuck you talkin' bout.
@B-NaNa: So true, so true. It's like you can really see those dust particles!
@LolCait: Followed by The Smokin' Sex, Smacklash and A Shroom of One's Own.
This is complete and utter bullpucky. Stoner-women rule the world. Just look at Paris Hilton.
I don't find male stoners adorable. They piss me off. And I don't like farting. Does that make me a girl?
Farting is a relaxation technique? Because Kate Keyes-Morgan sure makes all that bowel emission stuff seem stressful somehow.
Bridget Fonda always seems stoned.
@TedSez: They're sort of related to The Feminine Mesquite.
Padma Lakawana (whatever the fuck her name is) just read the title of this post and...after re-, re- and re-reading it said...'whaaaa? are...you...serious...."
If there are no lady potheads, then who crotches the weed when you get on a plane?
@Pope John Peeps II: No, it makes you a person of class & refinement. Like me.
The oddest graduation gift I ever received was watching my godmother get high.
@ellagood: Ms. Lakawana's particular brand of catatonia was actually caused by a zombie bite.
Well they didn't ask this chick because I smoke daily (with pride!). If it weren't for a leafy haze I'd never have the stomach for the Lower East Side and all their insanely (cough) cool residents (gag). And! If you're not high what's the excuse for leg warmers or little Fidel hats and Vans (Vans for fuck's sake)??
The monthly curse is greatly eased
when you lay in bed with a bowl of greens.
And I don't mean salad.
Guess I'm a dude, then.
And there was totally a chick in Half-Baked! Peripherally. Somewhere.
If I see Julia Allison one mor etime on Gawker I will scream.
Plenty of women are potheads - myself included. We are just unnaturally adept at inhaling grass without exhaling out of our asses. It's just one of the many things that makes us the superior gender.
pussies.
Um, girl stoners? You know where to reach me. I'll have my boy hook you up with some good ish. He runs that new delivery service...
On the weekends I do everything stoned: laundry, apartment cleaning, showering (so much fun!), movies ... hell, sometimes, I even go run on the treadmill stoned.
I don't know what these Stranger peeps are talking about because it's pretty much been 4:20 since high school for this lady.
But all the stoner guys I know have stoner girlfriends!
@LolCait: It's true...it runs the length of her right arm.
When I used to smoke (and BOY did i used to smoke!), I was high, like, all the time, and did everything and everyone high and most people didn't have any idea. I even went to therapy stoned and never brought it up until the day I ran out of pot and said I felt extra weird that day and then she was like, Why? And I was like, I haven't smoked in days, and she's like, Cigarettes? And I'm like, No, pot. And she was like, Are you usually high during therapy? And I had to think about it. I guess that's what REALLY being a stoner is. Forgetting you're stoned. And being stoned is KNOWING that you're stoned. P.S. Bridget Fonda just got finished with her Jane Fonda work out in that picture except there's no cardio, only mega bong hits. (long live Foxy post!)
@LittleLolly: Exactly. Except, being a design major, I made sure to smoke before I had to sit down and really concentrate on "being creative".
Also, eating is pretty much the best part of smoking. Selecting stoner snacks is an art form itself.
Great. Now whenever I overhear to publishing sluts in line at Olive's talking about how they don't "get" men that I should just give them my dealer's number and say, "This should help."
This has me depressed. With all the other things we women have to be concerned about, now I have to determine exactly how high I've got to get to break the gonj glass ceiling.
I guess I start researching this on my couch tonight after work.
I am a devoted pothead and so are most of my girlfriends.
They're absolutely right. . . if the only women you know are coked fag-hags.
well this was a fun one to read on a day when i decided to get high around 11am and take a nap. unemployment + rain = staying in bed all day.
So you're saying putting on makeup isn't relaxing? Also, women don't seem to need to be stoned to eat a pint of Half Baked. Oh, and maybe men need pot to deal with the stress associated with knowing they are going to die seven years before their identically aged gal pals.
I pretty much had to give up weed after I landed that DC-10 at the wrong airport.
@epg: I can relate. The day i graduated high school, my mom (a teacher at said high school) forced me to smoke her out. She got a migraine and complained about it for going on 4 years now. Never again!
Almost all of my girlfriends (and my sister, pre-pregnancy) smoke up from time to time. I envy them. I can't smoke pot - it goes a little something like this:
(me hitting the bong) Man, I'm kind of hungry. Ooo! A couch! (zzzzz)
Quick question: Is sex while stoned equally awesome for both sexes?
cuz it is great for us dudes.
@katastic: None other than Laura Silverman, though she's forgettable. What I would give for a girlie stoner movie starring Jodi from Knocked Up (she's the giggling girl who wonders how Heigl feels about having to share her food with the baby.)
Perhaps The Stranger has never seen Girls Gone Weed?
GRRRR. ahem: GGW