Political Correctness
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The contradictions are endless.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
Life is contradictions.
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
No, I'm mostly just struggling to understand why you care. I mean, make the case as to why I should think this is so self-evidently terrible.
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
I genuinely don't understand this. It's incoherent and dumb.
But since there's never been a problem with Scout leaders sexually assaulting boys, I'm sure adding girls to the mix won't be a problem.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
On the other hand, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, as organizations, cultivate very different sorts of skills and promote different types of identities. I don't think it's bad at all that girls have access to the arena of the former, as well as the latter—even if Scouting has had its fair-share of bad leaders (irrespective, as you note, of the gender of the juvenile constituents).
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
But, uh, who's so bothered by it that they're posting about it on a message board?
sturg33
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Why do I care that students on college campuses get punished for saying "lame?"
I dunno, I guess I'm just weird.
My fiance's sister had to introduce her pro-noun on the first day of her class at Brown.
I don't want to live in a country where I have to worry about your approved pro-noun.
I guess I'm just a snowflake
sturg33
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Me. As a former boy scout, I don't wish to have made the experience completely different with the inclusion of girls.
Why do we have to live in a world where we can't even acknowledge biological differences anymore?
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
If your issue really is pronominal laziness, then yea: you're a snowflake.
sturg33
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You'd be right if assuming one's gender doesn't auto-make you a white supremacist white privilege sexist.
But that's the world the left has made for us... and I'm fed up with it.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
And that's really what it comes down to: selfishness. You don't want to have to change anything about your blissfully privileged world to accommodate or include others who might have been, heretofore, largely unaccommodated or excluded.
sturg33
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sturg33
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Weird how men aren't allowed to comment on women's issues because "they're not women"
But men can't say "as a father of 3" or a guy can't say "As a former boyscout" without the inevitable sexist claim.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
Men are totally allowed to comment, regardless of whatever skepticism might attend said comments. Don't confuse allowance with regard.
And I'm not calling you sexist; I'm calling you selfish. I don't think you have a problem with women; I think you have a problem with change disrupting a world that's been good to you, even if it hasn't been so good to a lot of other folks.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
I'm excited about the Boy Scouts allowing girls to participate. My daughter knows some boy scouts and has asked me several times if she can join them. She wants to hike, camp, fish, build fires, and learn woodcraft. If the girl scouts was a program that did more of that stuff then it would be a better fit for her, but sadly there doesn't seem to be much "scouting" done in girl scouts anymore.
I've tried to fill that gap as much as possible with family outings, but I think it's natural and healthy that she wants to share her interests with kids of a similar age. If that's boys then so be it.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
It's not like there's a Phallus Care merit badge ...