I love my friend who brought me GS cookies yesterday. That is all.

Anonymous wrote:You seem to have an irrational dislike of the Girl Scouts and use scant observations to form opinions about them that are incorrect.

Well, bless your heart as it is you who is incorrect.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no ONE organization that does everything better. There is room in this community for groups whose goal it is to enrich the lives of our young girls. I don't care if your children join the Girl Scouts or not. Just don't knock it.

I will because the First Amendment gave me that right. The girls that I mentor do all sorts of "enriching" without the stark "we must sell cookies" mentality. Rationalizing the salaries of the Girl Scout organization through 7 and 8 year-old girls hawking cookies in the rain is so not cool.

The Girl Scouts sell cookies once a year. They do so much more then "stand in the rain" selling cookies. You seem to have an irrational dislike of the Girl Scouts and use scant observations to form opinions about them that are incorrect. And invoking the First Amendment to give you this right is just silly.

Anonymous wrote:There is no ONE organization that does everything better. There is room in this community for groups whose goal it is to enrich the lives of our young girls. I don't care if your children join the Girl Scouts or not. Just don't knock it.

I will because the First Amendment gave me that right. The girls that I mentor do all sorts of "enriching" without the stark "we must sell cookies" mentality. Rationalizing the salaries of the Girl Scout organization through 7 and 8 year-old girls hawking cookies in the rain is so not cool.

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Anonymous wrote:What better organizations?

Many. And all of those "activities" you cited can be done without Girl Scouts. We do all those and more through our church. AND we don't have to be hawking cookies at Giant and Safeway.

There is no ONE organization that does everything better. There is room in this community for groups whose goal it is to enrich the lives of our young girls. I don't care if your children join the Girl Scouts or not. Just don't knock it. And by the way, the last time I checked, churches also had fundraisers. Raffle tickets anyone?

Church. There you have it. Girl Scouts -- lesbian planned parenthood worshiping demons! ha.

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Anonymous wrote:What better organizations?

Many. And all of those "activities" you cited can be done without Girl Scouts. We do all those and more through our church. AND we don't have to be hawking cookies at Giant and Safeway.

There is no ONE organization that does everything better. There is room in this community for groups whose goal it is to enrich the lives of our young girls. I don't care if your children join the Girl Scouts or not. Just don't knock it. And by the way, the last time I checked, churches also had fundraisers. Raffle tickets anyone?

Holy crap, those lemon smiles cookies are ridiculously addictive. I just bought a box, and ate the WHOLE damn thing.

Anonymous wrote:What better organizations?

Many. And all of those "activities" you cited can be done without Girl Scouts. We do all those and more through our church. AND we don't have to be hawking cookies at Giant and Safeway.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't stand the uniforms. The Brownies look like little Nazi campers going away to be indoctrinated. It's creepy.
My little girl likes Daisy Scouts, but there are better organizations these days for promoting girl's self esteem. And having five-year-olds sell cookies is ridiculous. I ended up selling them, picking them up at RFK, delivering them, and eating most of them myself. I think we'll skip it all next year. If she wants to do it when she's a little older that's fine, but I hope she'll be too busy with sports and ballet.

You make an inference like that merely because of the uniforms? Nazi? Really? You have too much time on your hands. What an ignorant comment.

What better organizations? I find there is this attitude among some of the parents that what the girls are doing in GS -- in our case, making sandwiches for the homeless shelters, cleaning the streams of litter, learning about sharing, giving -- is less valuable than the sports, dance etc. GS tends to come last in their eyes -- which is a shame and I've had some parents not take their kids to clean the streams. These same parents never miss a lacrosse game or a gymnastics meet. Sort of sad that everything our kids do has to be geared toward winning that scholarship or being the BEST soccer player.

Anonymous wrote:I can't stand the uniforms. The Brownies look like little Nazi campers going away to be indoctrinated. It's creepy.
My little girl likes Daisy Scouts, but there are better organizations these days for promoting girl's self esteem. And having five-year-olds sell cookies is ridiculous. I ended up selling them, picking them up at RFK, delivering them, and eating most of them myself. I think we'll skip it all next year. If she wants to do it when she's a little older that's fine, but I hope she'll be too busy with sports and ballet.

You make an inference like that merely because of the uniforms? Nazi? Really? You have too much time on your hands. What an ignorant comment.

I can't stand the uniforms. The Brownies look like little Nazi campers going away to be indoctrinated. It's creepy.

My little girl likes Daisy Scouts, but there are better organizations these days for promoting girl's self esteem. And having five-year-olds sell cookies is ridiculous. I ended up selling them, picking them up at RFK, delivering them, and eating most of them myself. I think we'll skip it all next year. If she wants to do it when she's a little older that's fine, but I hope she'll be too busy with sports and ballet.

Bought 4 boxes, but holy cow the prices have gone up!

It's still $3.50 here in flyover country.

Thin mints are the only ones worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn't knocking the GS experience. I just think the cookies are over priced and I can't justify paying $3.50 a box. It's just not worth it to me. Just my point of view...isn't it ok to post an opinion on DCUM?

No, because you are bashing the bastion known as Girl Scouts.

They're $4 now! $4! I was surprised.

It's a lot. But the popcorn the Boy Scouts sell is like 18 bucks for a decent sized bag, but it's POPCORN. I'm happy supporting the Girl Scouts.

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn't knocking the GS experience. I just think the cookies are over priced and I can't justify paying $3.50 a box. It's just not worth it to me. Just my point of view...isn't it ok to post an opinion on DCUM?

No, because you are bashing the bastion known as Girl Scouts.

They're $4 now! $4! I was surprised.