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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course they are, and not just for that reason.

The cookies taste bad, because they're not made with great ingredients (pure butter, please).
And girls are pressured by certain troupes and parents to sell those awful things.
Parents then annoy everyone in their circle by trying to make sales.

It's really sexist to expect girls to sell COOKIES when boy scouts aren't tied to that tradition.

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Um...

The boys sell popcorn.

You are looking for outrage where there is none.

The outrage ia in the hobbit sized cookies, not manufactured sexism.[/quote]

No, for several reasons:
Boy Scouts are not inextricably linked to sales of one particular type of food as Girl Scouts are. You don't think: "Yeah! It's the season to buy BS Popcorn!" and post it all over your social media...
Popcorn doesn't have the feminine connotation that cookies do in people's minds.

Guys can make popcorn. Cookies: people think "mother in the kitchen". Understand that this perhaps doesn't happen that way in YOUR house. But it is the popular conception.
It's amazing that people here do not see what's right in front of their nose - that GS still has some trappings of misogyny. The cookies need to go, and be replaced by another, or a variety of different items.
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I feel like you've never met a boy scout or cub scout, or been to the grocery store or church during Popcorn season.  They are everywhere and at least as aggressive as the Girl Scouts.  And they make a LOT More on it than GS because they are ridiculously over-charging.  If there's sexism, it's sort of in that entrenched sexism where men feel entitled to ask for the sun, the moon and the stars in contract negotiations, whereas women feel like they need to have a "reasonable" ask.  The boys get $15 for a small bag of caramel corn, and the girls get $4 for a box of cookies.  They are both tasty in a not-baked-at-home way.  The only reason that girls are "associated" with the cookies is that: (1) the cookies are popular and have been around for 50 years; and (2) people are sexist and would rather think of girl scouts as cookie purveyers, rather than as young women who are learning to camp, light fires, and advocating for the end of child marriage laws in places like New Hampshire.    I'd love to change the second thing, but getting rid of cookies-which would rob the GS of needed money to fund their programs--is not the way to do it.
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