Girls in California Are Latest to Seek to Become Boy Scouts
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Re: Girls in California Are Latest to Seek to Become Boy Scouts
#2Is it only in the US in which Scouts are called Boy Scouts? It's just been called "Scouts" here in Australia for as long as I can remember, I was a member about 20 years ago and we had quite a few girls in our group back then.
Re: Girls in California Are Latest to Seek to Become Boy Scouts
#3The comments to the NYT article are worth reading, especially the one under the tab "NYT Picks."
(Disclosure: I'm an Eagle Scout, as are my brother and my son, and I'm a long-time adult leader in what we're pretty sure is the largest Boy Scout troop in the U.S.)
Re: Girls in California Are Latest to Seek to Become Boy Scouts
#4I want to join the Unicorns.
Re: Girls in California Are Latest to Seek to Become Boy Scouts
#5As a Boy Scout we often had sisters of scouts come along on our outings. Half the time one or more parents would come, and it just makes more sense. "Admitting" them as full members is just a formalism on top of the core experience, so why not?
Also, it's a shame that these girls don't feel like girl scouts does enough for their sense of adventure and play. The girl scouts should also step up to accommodate them. And I think the girls are right on this one, the Girl Scouts websites in all regions I've checked in the last ten minutes have the primary events being "fun-filled festivals" and "leadership conferences" and "arts and crafts workshops." The images are girls holding rainbow parachutes instead of hard hats, fish, and model rockets like on the BSA websites.
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#6Ugh, but the Boy Scouts are homophobic and the Girl Scouts are progressive and awesome.
It would be better if this was the other way around. I'd love for the Girl Scouts to become the "Scouts" and the Boy Scouts to die off.
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#7Hmm, I don't think every activity needs to be mixed. At that age kids have plenty to learn from same-sex role models. However, it sounds like the GS program is not aggressive enough for some people? Well, by all means, expand it in to more hard-core activities.
If the GS administration won't do that, then perhaps BS should open additional girl-only BS troops with the boy curriculum.
Re: Girls in California Are Latest to Seek to Become Boy Scouts
#8Is it only in the US in which Scouts are called Boy Scouts? It's just been called "Scouts" here in Australia for as long as I can remember, I was a member about 20 years ago and we had quite a few girls in our group back then.
Not sure, for boys it goes cub scouts then boy scouts. But there'a an analogous girls organization that goes brownies to girl scouts.
I've not a clue what the girls organization does at meetings, but they're famous for selling thin mint cookies and being overtly over sexualized to teenage boys.
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#9Ugh, but the Boy Scouts are homophobic and the Girl Scouts are progressive and awesome . It would be better if this was the other way around. I'd love for the Girl Scouts to become the "Scouts" and the Boy Scouts to die off.
Great generalizations there.
Re: Girls in California Are Latest to Seek to Become Boy Scouts
#10Ugh, but the Boy Scouts are homophobic and the Girl Scouts are progressive and awesome . It would be better if this was the other way around. I'd love for the Girl Scouts to become the "Scouts" and the Boy Scouts to die off.
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