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Boy Scouts to Admit Girls. Sigh.
As announced today, the 100-year-old organization will allow begin allowing girls into scouting. As a parent and former Eagle Scout, I can think of a hundred reasons why this is a lousy idea. Here are the first few that come to mind.
- Overnight co-ed camping trips.
- Overnight co-ed camping trips with adults.
- The Girl Scouts have a nice thing going.
- Modifying traditional scouting activities because girls won’t do that.
- Modifying traditional scouting activities because boys want to do that.
- Like co-ed dorms, girls don’t civilize the boys. Quite the reverse.
- This appears to be a push by BSA leadership to expand membership — so yet another non-profit abandons its mission to support growth goals and keep grown-ups employed.
- It will increase pressure on Girl Scout troops to shut down/merge
- One more duck peck in the effort to convince the nation that there is nothing different between boys and girls
- Yet another non-profit that abandons its core mission to try and be a social services agency
- It basically implies that the Boys Scouts are better, and that real scouts are in that organization, not Girl Scouts.
- It implies there is nothing positive about all-girl activities
- Or all boy activities
- Dating Merit badge?
- How about That’s Not Funny Merit badge?
- He Said-She Said Merit Badge?
It is a scientific fact that it is impossible to say “No” to a little girl selling cookies. Well, impossible for me anyway.
Impossible for my wife, too. I have no problem with it, though.
I’ll admit, my first thought was of the two sons of a single-mother-by-choice…
(If the identity of “something” was elucidated in any meaningful way. I missed it. Could you provide enlightenment or the number of the previous comment that I missed? The real question, though…)
Could you provide just one instance in which the PC/progressive camel insinuating its nose into the tent was not followed by the rest of the camel?
Thank you.
I quit buying girl scout cookies when Patricia Ireland became president, or whatever the head girl scout is called.
I was a force for good with my kids. Our most important rule was to always leave a place better than when we arrived.
And we did. We cleaned up a lot of the local hiking trails and beaches. We planted trees and flowers. And we always left places as clean as we could.
Mostly we laughed a lot and continuously. We had a lot of fun doing good things.
I don’t see this is a PC/progressive camel. I have wanted this for years. So, when people insist on treating it only as a PC issue, then the only valid conclusion I can make that since I am for this, I must, by definition, be only interested in being PC.
And we know that’s not true. ;^D
Lol. I’ve seen him fight with Frank Soto.
Will they sell cookies?
Doesn’t work any better then aspirin. Use your imagination.
I fear it will lead to boys being taught the values long taught to girls. See what’s happened in our schools.
They just need to self identify as a girl and it’s all good.
Two of my Eagle Mentor Pins (i.e. sole choice to award those is base on the Eagle Scouts personal reflection and is done during the ceremony) are from boy’s with non existent fathers. It part of the gig, and I am very proud (and was very surprised) that I could make that strong of an impression on those young men.
Fingers crossed, both are good citizens so far.
Squirrels?
ThemScouts?
Theyscouts
ZeScouts
Maybe this change wouldn’t be viewed negatively had there not been the blatant capitulation to the homosexual crowd. Again, the Scouts will not count my boy as a member of their ranks.
How much of this as well has to do with the covetedEagle Scout? NOW apparently pressured the BSA on allowing girls in, and given how much prestige attaches to Eagle Scout, maybe NOW thought it “unfair” that only boys could get it.
Nightingale is better. I want to be a Nightingale when I grow up.
(My first reaction was to dig further and to ask for the identity of a change (definition as implied by topics herein) that has not been a loss in the culture wars. And I still think it a worthy question…)
To the present: You have wanted [this] for years? Taking [this] to be androgynizing the Boy Scouts? Well, some might see that as the very definition of PC/progressive, and that’s the least of it, frankly. Altering the last remaining (though tottering) large-scale male-only organization to your specification. If the Boy Scouts go (most likely a dine deal, sadly), they’ll never be replaced. Which, I suppose, would be ok… but the (formerly) Boys Clubs, the YMCA (back when the M (or the C) actually meant anything, not to mention most, if not all, of the US military, vanished years ago as alternatives for everyone else; if there are any others, I’d be pleased to hear them.
(This androgynizing everything could have existential consequences, but that’s a topic for another day.)
Huh. Acorns between the knees worked very well for me, despite my being in Girl Scouts after conservatives started worrying about it. The local troop can make a big difference.
Oh c’mon! Half the guys I knew growing up considered themselves to be Girl Scouts by the time they were 16. For the rest, it was age 17.
I don’t believe that should be capitalized. That’s an avocation, not a formal organization.