re: Boy Scouts to change name after allowing girls to join

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Here's the problem, the boy that likes to play dress up and bake cookies with mom wouldnt be allowed in the girl scouts, so hes left with nothing. Bu yeah, frick the young men and boys of this country.

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So.... girl scouts isn't about baking cookies and playing dress up.

It is more about community service than anything. The troops money that is raised from cookie sales goes 100% to a charitable cause (yes, the individual girls get prizes for themselves based upon sales. But the troop as a whole keeps nothing).

And yes, the community outreach is often what girls would want to do (help an all girls orphanage, help the humane society, help the senior center, etc. ).

There are 2 problems with girl scouts. 1) the upper level and district level leadership sucks. Out of touch. And they don't care.

2) the girls see their brothers do cool things like build campfires (illegal for girl scouts until age 14), shoot bb guns/archery, etc.. The girl scouts have advantages (young girls can do a ropes course where cub scouts cant. Young girls can do canoing without an adult in the boat where cub scouts cant). But they don't focus on that when the cub scouts are camping once a month doing a much longer list of things that can be done much more frequently.

A lot of the school year district level camping for cub scouts is family camping. These same girls have already been doing the cub scout archery and bb guns. But they have been invited by their brothers. And doing it as a guest about twice a year. If a girl feels like she can thrive in an all girl BSA cub scout den, then I don't see the harm. Again... a huge percentage of these girls are in scout families and have been doing these things with family camping for years.