There are lots of spaces that are boy only or 98% boy. There are multiple sports that are separated by gender. Math teams and regular coding clubs are extremely boy heavy. Robotics teams and e-sports heavily skew to boy. |
If girls have the (false) impression that girl scout has a focus on "everything feminine" I could see how they would never want to join in the first place. I guess there is some marketing work that needs to be here to correct that impression. There is absolutely a focus on activities like entrepreneurship, planning and leadership skills, the outdoors, etc. and I don't think belong to one gender or another. |
Yeah; mind your own business! |
If your child identifies as a girl, she should be allowed in Girl Scouts. How is this a question in 2024? |
The DMV is a patriarchy? Is that your point |
I don't know if it's really a market share grab but the name change has certainly added to the confusion around the relationship between girl scouts/boy scouts and now girl scouts/scouts. I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to join girl scouts and end up on the scouts website not realizing it's not part of the same org. I imagine many of them figure it out before joining but it does muddle something that was already unclear. |
It is my business when they are camping together and I'm entrusted with your child to make sure they aren't having sex in the middle of the night (just one example). |
Yes, but girls are welcome everywhere. Girls are welcome to tryout for any “boys” sports team. My kids play hockey and they don’t even have “boys” teams anymore…they are coed and girls. |
There were girls - the sisters of boys - at almost every event I attended in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in the 1980s and 1990s. Weekly meetings, monthly pack meetings, camp outs, fishing trips, etc. What you're pining for never actually existed in Boy Scouts except in your idealized "un-woke" fantasy. |
Yeah, the same way pedophiles were prevalent in that organization in 80-90s. What's your point? I reject your notion that 12-year-old boys in 2024 are somehow responsible for the oppression of women over the centuries and should not have their own space to atone for the sins of their fathers. I don't have a problem with Girl Scouts (or any organization) having a space for girls only. Maybe we can allow the same for boys. |
You're literally arguing against a strawman no one advocated for in this thread. You made up a boogeyman whole cloth. You're DCUM's Don Quixote, valiantly charging up the hill at some windmills. I'm actually very supportive of GSUSA being girls-only. No one is blaming young boys for anything, except you keeping bringing it up. No one here is falling for your "narrative." |
Except of course the people who keep coming back to tell me how it's all fine that girls are a part of Boy Scouts and that boys have plenty of spaces just for themselves. |
Just let children be children. The world is not so black and white anymore. If your child chooses to identify as a girl, let her live her best life. |
Change troops? My son's troop is all boys, so there are no girls at events, campouts, or fundraisers (unless they are attending as guests or volunteers). |
Our leaving the troop would hardly change the fact that girls would still be there after our departure. |