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The People running the national Boy Scouts have opened their minds so far that their brains have fallen out. Seriously, just when I thought they couldn't get any more stupid they go and pull this stunt.
This is complete garbage. The heads of national BSA caved to the ultra progressive feminist organization NOW.
I am ashamed to be associated with the BSA.
Despite the culture war going on, this is a very bad idea on multiple levels. I'm an Eagle/Vigil
Coincidence they do this on national coming out day?
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Yes. The problem is Girl Scouts do boring things like baking when the boys get to sail boats and play with campfires. As long as the dens and troops are separate I don't see a problem. You cannot put 14 year old boys and girls in the same campground though without a rise in pregnancies.
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Actually, BSA did this to themselves. Last year they decided to admit transgender children, so it is not much of a stretch to say that they have to now admit girls.
The Girl Scouts are not happy about this, and again, they did this to themselves. I enjoyed a 20 year tenure as a leader, and was a trainer in my council. This is something I can address. I was also a member as a girl.
There have always been coed programs in BSA at the high school levels. What they are called varies from area to area, but it was a way to add extra leadership experience and specific high adventure to some members who qualified.
Membership in both organizations are declining. Part of this has to do with the low numbers of available adults necessary to carry out troop/den/group activites. The other part has to do with the way the Girl Scout program has been watered down. For an organization that believes girls should explore new things, a lot of their badge work starts with, "make a list." By the time I was a leader, the program offered far fewer actual skill badges than it did when I was a kid.
In addition, Girl Scouts tried to address declining interest by calling it a diversity issue. This was really veiled racism. As a blond haired blue eyed woman, I was excluded from a lot of outreach because I did not appear to meet diversity goals set by GSUSA.
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I just got surprised with my first son, who was born two months ago. But it's been over 15 years since I determined that none of my kids would have anything to do with scouting.
The entire thing is a military recruitment program which spreads $#@!ty theology to boot. That's not hyperbole. Baden-Powell himself created it specifically to prepare boys for military service, and any group that forces common prayer to a nebulous "great master of all scouts" is practicing $#@!ty theology.
I'm not returning my Eagle or anything primarily because nobody cares, and I refuse to spend that amount of effort on a meaningless gesture.
There are no crimes against people.
There are only crimes against the state.
And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.
I don't particularly remember it being that way, but I imagine it varied depending on locality and specific church/troop. Can't say as I blame you with regards your children. My sister had asked last year why I didn't become a troop leader and I actually spent some time considering it. I finally decided the potential hassle wouldn't be worth it. First transgendered and now girls it sounds like a harassment lawsuit and sex offender status waiting to happen. One accusation and you're name is "mud."
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Originally Posted by spudea on 01/15/24Originally Posted by spudea on 04/20/16Originally Posted by spudea on 05/30/17
Wrong change, too late. If leadership at least want steady numbers, boot the trannies. Have nothing to do with their parents at any level.
There have been club matrons, but they didn't hang around much at actual events from what I remember. Scouts was just a formal way of escaping women and letting boys be w/o mommy and big sister nagging, while keeping us relatively amused. Now sister and that ze thing are in the way, like the cousin who wouldn't stop following you and asking for everything you ever got.
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Back when I was a Girl Scout, badges required actual skills. All kinds of skills. I'm one who believes men need to know how to cook and sew on buttons because not everyone lives with their mom.
The program was already watered down by the time I became a leader, but it really went south long about 1996 or so. The short version is that GSUSA was more interested in quantity than quality, and parents are less interested in helping groups of girls because Girl Scouts is not a trophy sport. They needed more program that requred less supervision from parents. Girls can work independently and have work signed off by someone who rarely sees them.
Girls were encouraged to explore STEM careers, and there were council programs to support that. Girls were also encouraged to camp. My girls camped with a variety of skills, but I know a lot of leaders never went past lodge camping with kitchens and indoor bathrooms. My girls planned most of their activities and planned their camping. Communicating that concept to most leaders was very difficult. Moms want to micromanage other women.
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The filthy progs leave no stone untouched, no matter how tiny the stone may be. The march for 'change' continues. Hopefully, humanity is wiped out before they reach their sinister goals.
Son is learning to cook/sew/fix cars and carpenter from his dad...
Look, this goes much deeper and is a much more important sign post on the road to destruction we are on, than a simple dismissal as "muh culture war" warrants.
We all sit around and piss and moan, "Where, oh where are the defenders of freedom?", as we watch helplessly as a prison grid slave state is erected all around us.
The answer is simple: nobody bothered to make any.
A love of liberty and the passion to defend it does not come naturally, it must be nurtured and cultivated. As I've said a million times, and believe beyond any shadow of doubt, the default human condition is to want to be fed, entertained and exercise petty power.
How is this done? Through training that organizations like Boy Scouts, all their current faults and warts aside, bring to boys.
Yes, boys.
Male and female humans are different. They think differently, they have different drives, passions and wants. To keep denying this natural truth is foolishness of the first degree.
Furthermore, boys must have a "right of passage" to become men, and that right of passage, with all due respect to NC Scout leaders that teach shooting, must be done by men. Every human society that has ever thrived and survived, has had a rite of passage for boys to test the mettle and become men.
And boys do better in schooling, in learning, in bonding, in becoming men when they are led and taught by men, in a unisex environment.
This action by BSA just marks another point in the ongoing "war on boys".
So, compound this a hundred fold, from the very first exposures to "society" that a boy gets in the poisonous and gynocentric government schools, all the way to the third divorce raping in the gynocentric government courts, and you will start to understand why, when you look for somebody to defend liberty, at great risk to life and limb, you will find nothing but moping, timid manginas, manboys who know how to accomplish nothing more than getting to next level of Halo V, or, increasingly, men both young and old, that are taking a good hard look at what they are expected by society and millions of toxic slags that claim to be "strong independent woemen", to support, comply with and be validated by and are, quite rightly, telling the whole miserable lot of them all to $#@! off and die, and walking away from the whole mess.
Can't say I blame them one bit.
But the long term consequences of all of this are deadly for the health and liberty of a free society.
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