The Boy Scouts will no longer be The Boy Scouts
“After 108 years, the Boy Scouts program is set to drop the gender from its name and re-emerge as "Scouts BSA," a more "inclusive" group that will also soon welcome girls in its ranks...”
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Women are getting so tedious and boring..
And what about those overnight camping trips. They could get very interesting.
Might as well say good-by to the late great Boy Scouts of America.
I love it! But I suppose I'll never be President, now that I've agreed with such a sexist comment...
Is there anyplace left that boys can just be boys, or is it all over?
Buying Girl Scout cookies a few weeks ago......
I asked the three young ladies dressed in their uniform if boys can be Girl Scouts? They said that was being discussed . I than asked isn't there Boy
Scouts already? One girl looked confused the other two smiled knowingly.
You will see the Boy Scouts effectively dissolve as an organization in the next two years because the mainstay of Scouting has been Christian Churches, especially the Baptists and Mormons. Once those two organizations drop out, Scouting is done - no matter how "inclusive" they want to be. There were already a host of Christian churches which dropped support after the policy about homosexual scouting leaders. This will be the final nail in the coffin.
If a conservative doesn't like a restaurant, he will say "I won't eat there again." If a liberal doesn't like a restaurant, he says "Nobody can eat there again."
Let's hope such actions backfire on them.
Interviewer: “Well Johnny what is that badge for?”
Johnny: “I’ve been told it’s my favorite badge because it means I was there, I participated.”
I have had no experience with that organization. It seems like something that Objectivists and their children should stay out of----doesn't it have a history of trying to inculcate religion, also altruism?
Presumably, the girl scouts - and gays and transgenders - will be assimilated into the "Scouts"; then no one will have to buy GS cookies, and perhaps enough boys (properly defined) will drop out which will destroy the intended initial good of the organization.
Liberals always choose destruction over the "unequal" and "discrimination" (of a moral kind). People need to push back on the so-called gender crisis of differentiation.
It would be easier to draw a square circle.
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Hopefully most will get fed up with all this.
Just think about all the starving children all over the world, and reason takes a back seat for most.
I would have an alternative to recommend, but I doubt most here would appreciate knowing about it.
That is the way they wanted it, and so they made it into what they wanted.
The Boy Scouts was the way that it was because that is the way that the people involved in it over the years had made it.
Over time, some of the programs have changed, others have remained the same or very similar. That's the way the people wanted it and so they kept it the way it was.
Now it is drastically changing, and it is changing quickly. I expect that they will find a need to integrate the separated boy/girl dens and troops after a while.
If they really had any intention of creating really separated programs, they would have created the "BSA Girls' Scouting" and created it as a separate set of programs.
Your daughter won't be joining the Boy Scouts, she'll be joining an organization no one cares about any more because it was destroyed by leftists.
I don't have a problem if someone wants to set up a parallel organization for females. But I completely disagree that you can properly conduct the Scouting organization in a mixed-gender environment. That's coming from not only ideals, but practical experience both as a Boy Scout and as a Scoutmaster and as a father of nine girls.
Maybe the Scouts and the world are turning to worms, but they're with some really good people in my son's pack. I watched them tell the kids at the beginning they'd learn to use dangerous tools, fire, and knives responsibly. They have followed through. My son carries a Craftsman knife. My daughter has a hairclip that turns into a mini tool set. The kids cut their own pinewood derby cars with a bandsaw-- with the parents and leaders turning responsibility over to the 9 y/o's not to cut off a finger, once we saw they were ready. They're on the road to becoming independent adults. My close friend and colleague went through Eagle Scouts and his helping my kids, humbly embodying those values they have the kids memorize to earn badges. Regardless of what happens to the rest of world and if the value of badges gets diluted, I'm blessed to be surrounded by honest selfish people, people who much of the world might consider "leftist". My son won third place at the pinewood derby. Most kids didn't win any awards. My son, on his own initiative, went to the person who taught him the bandsaw and said he never could have won without him. I was impressed at his initiative to thank his mentor and to congratulate honestly the people who won 1st and 2nd place. I could have benefited from more friends like him at age 9.
I can't speak for the whole scouting organization, but there is a sliver of the world, ironically a sliver where 90% of us are what the rest of the world sees as leftists, that will not be destroyed. I just don't see the destruction happening, even when I travel outside my Madison bubble. In the past 24 months I went to Canton, Sicily, Portland, Little Rock, Memphis, London , Lexington, and Tampa. I don't see the world falling apart, being destroyed. I see people freed from the ancient fears, superstitions, and duties, in a coffee shop in Palermo, and Uber in Portland, and a gas station in Lexington-- people who accept without question their lives are theirs, without regard to duty to family, church, or country. Respectfully, I don't see the wold being destroyed. I see the problems, but I see the arc of history bending toward individuals living free and building institutions that respect their rights.
As to whether or not the world is falling apart, we differ in that opinion. The moral decay I see all around me - even in the heavily red state I am in - is of stark contrast even to twenty years ago. And I see it getting worse before it gets better. The intolerance of the left has brought war which right now is ideological and plays out mostly in politics and the media right now but is growing into mob violence. And out of that war will come either the slavery of all moral people and the fall of the Constitution, or the destruction of the leftist ideology and the return of the people to the principles of self-reliance, independence, morality, individual rights, and honor and decency.
I wonder if even in great turning points in history there were people like me, drawing plans for aqueducts, blind to the problems and changes. I started thinking about this ten years ago as I biked past an apartment building on the way to work. I didn't know anyone in that area. It's a former poor neighborhood that's now gentrifying. Maybe the angry people are in some of those windows, I thought.
I hope you're wrong and my world is the rule rather than the exception.
We simply should not succumb to liberal pressures like this.
Boys have a right to be a part of an organization for them; girls don't have the right to impose/force themselves on the boys..
We have that right, but I don't see any boy/girl issues at their age, so I welcome my daughter helping at their events. My daughter is the natural engineer; she helped the pack make games for the younger den. In my travels I see everywhere these liberal pressures to let people be themselves. It feels like we're taking over except for in theocracies.
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Only muslims that blow themselves up get the choice of "72" different genders!
Anyone see/recall the shower scene in the Starship Troopers flick? Think camping.
"Liberating" merit badges for Getting Some! Yay!
The younger the coupled kids the more prestigious the badges.
Of course, same sex couplings would be even moire prestigious in this brave new bizarro world of lib scouting.
Immature adolescents (if not late stage juveniles) with raging hormones is going to contemplate a "learned respect" at the sight of naked bodies?
Me no think so. Memories of teen behavior does not rationally conclude that's remotely possible.
That's even likely to be too tough enough for too many adults to handle.
Me dino wouldn't let my little girl join such PC BS.
I imagine that similar outrage existed when grammar schools were made co-ed; I remember such rhetoric when colleges became co-ed. It has not meant the end of colleges.
The key is to make the Scouts still mean competence and responsibility - which is eroding because of our culture. Having girls in the troop is trivial. I read several comments below about the presence of girls meaning that boys could not be strong and capable. Huh?
Jan