# Mama Gena---know anything about her? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777 "2007-06-28T16:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/1 "2007-06-28T16:07:01Z")
I’m pretty sure my pal who told me that she has recently graduated from [Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts](http://www.mamagenas.com/) has lost her ever-lovin’ mind, not to mention a significant amount of money. And I’m even more afraid that, at some point, she is going to try recruiting me, although none of my Google searching has turned this type of scam up. I have no problem not listening to any of it, and in fact the tone of the email she sent about her Mastery Experience (as it’s called) makes me not want to talk to her at all, full of fabulousness though it was. I’m just wondering if there’s more to this than just women who have a lot of money to spend giving it to this “school” when it seems to me that one could just buy the book and save thousands of dollars, if one even wanted to buy the book. What say the wise (and fabulous) Dopers? Anyone have any experience with this? And believe me, I’m not against women believing that they’re wonderful and sensual and goddesses or whatever. I just don’t need to part with 5 grand for anyone to instruct me in following my desires or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/2 "2007-06-28T16:13:52Z")
Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/3 "2007-06-28T16:15:03Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Yikes. [/QUOTE] No shit, eh? Glad it’s not just me. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/4 "2007-06-28T16:16:39Z")
Sounds like an expensive motivational seminar marketed to “fabulous ladies”. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/5 "2007-06-28T16:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Yikes. [/QUOTE] Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/6 "2007-06-28T16:46:10Z")
1. The name **Mama Gena’s** sounds like some off-brand of pasta sauce at Kroger. 2. They’re offering $1,500 **off** tuition?!? How much must it cost that they can afford to do that? 3. Agghh, my eyes! I now want to kill their web designer. With something bright pink. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/7 "2007-06-28T16:47:55Z")
Presumably pink frees the goddess within. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/8 "2007-06-28T16:54:31Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] 1. They’re offering $1,500 **off** tuition?!? How much must it cost that they can afford to do that? [/QUOTE] The course itself is $4,950. Accoring to [this blog](http://misspenname.blogspot.com/2006/06/mama-gena.html), though, there are additional consults and events and what-have-you that can be purchased _for just a fraction more!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/9 "2007-06-28T16:57:35Z")
What’s with all the references to “womanly arts,” “pleasure,” and “making the world a juicier place with you in it”? Is this a whorehouse? Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/10 "2007-06-28T17:09:59Z")
Someone’s trying to make a buck off of sad, bored women with poor body images and lackluster sex lives? Scandalous. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/11 "2007-06-28T17:28:32Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] 3) Agghh, my eyes! I now want to kill their web designer. With something bright pink. :mad: [/QUOTE] And whoever wrote the phrase “actualize your full-throttle power”. Truth be told, I couldn’t read past that. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/12 "2007-06-28T20:09:49Z")
::snicker:: ::chuckle:: ::snort:: ::laugh:: ::guffaw:: ROFLMMFAO! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/13 "2007-06-28T20:20:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] What’s with all the references to “womanly arts,” “pleasure,” and “making the world a juicier place with you in it”? Is this a whorehouse? [/QUOTE] If it is, it’s still a little pricey. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/14 "2007-06-28T20:23:31Z")
C’mon, slavegirl training is an old and semi-distinguished occupation. But I have to tell you … making the slavegirl pay for her own training :::wipes tear from eye:: that’s **sheer genius!** ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mama-gena-know-anything-about-her/409777/15 "2007-06-28T23:23:43Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] making the slavegirl pay for her own training :::wipes tear from eye:: that’s **sheer genius!** [/QUOTE] I know, I think the worst part might be that I didn’t think of this first. Naw, I could never rook people like that. I am so, so glad for the sanity check.