Yeah, I think we've gone off-topic here talking about individual sides. The thread was about The Morris Ring.

My village mummers team are members of Open Morris as we're not Morris Dancers and all we really want is the insurance (all the "Morris Organisations" badly let down mummers when they negotiated the "Morris Exemption" in the licensing bill and none are doing anything at all about it now) and Open Morris is simply the cheapest.

My rapper team are members of The Ring. Strictly speaking, we have broken Ring rules and should be thrown out of The Ring for letting women dance with us occasionally for performances. It isn't the team's gender orientation that I was referring to above, it's the organisation's. On that level, things do have to change, and they will.

:-)
Ian