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[–] 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Here's the thing: This is total bullshit.

Chartering organizations like churches have the option to create a boys troop, a girl's troop, or two separate. Completely at their discretion. If they want a boys only space they can have one. This is just macho posturing that is going to have a major effect on turning a lot of youth even more against this administration

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago

    Yep. So very true. When you are looking at lists of troops, they are marked as to whether they have girls or not.

    But you know how butthurt the right wing authoritarians (RWAs) typically are. RWAs want to ruin things for EVERYONE. They cannot tolerate people doing their own thing.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The scouts opened up due to falling enrollment. A business model that cuts out 50% of your availability demographic will never work. That's why the girl scouts have cookies. Otherwise, they would have opened up to boys as well.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Can I go on the record here as saying this is sexist bullshit?

    Scouts letting girls in does not make them somehow not "boy-friendly". It just lets dads and moms and brothers bring their daughters and sisters to do "boy-things"

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    When it first happens I was like don't they have girl guides but then found out girl guides is completely different then scouts. So who cares if a girl want to do outdoor stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This is stupid, but honestly I don't know know that I'm that upset. I'm an Eagle Scout, and one issue I have with it is that it's designed as a pipeline to the military partially. If the military pulls funding then they have no incentive for this. It's stupid for them to cut funding for this at a time when military sign-ups are below what they need, but I don't know that it's a bad thing long-term for scouting.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    So are they sad that there are underage girls mixed in with their underage boys?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Just cut off Hegseth's head.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    What a whiny little bitch.

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