Boy Scouts to admit girls. Opinions?

Discussion in 'General Discussion / Real life stuff' started by vipa, Oct 12, 2017.

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  1. vipa

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    does that mean boys can join the girlscouts now
     
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  4. vipa

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    No
     
  5. noah

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    There are boy scouts and girl scouts for a reason, it's pretty stupid in my opinion. Why'd they do it in the first place?

    If it's cause girl scouts is all girly shit like cookies or whatever then just rename it to like "Scouts" or something and let anyone join yeah ??
     
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    What's the point? Is BSA running out of money/funding/scouts?
     
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    i don't even see the point ?? what
     
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    In my country scouts are boys and girls together and I think it's better. It's just "Scouts". It does seem kind of stupid to put girls in Boy Scouts because of the name, but I don't think there's anything wrong with the actual thing.

    I heard girl scouts just do shitty things with cookies but idk. I would want more if I was a girl...

    What bothers you guys so much about girls anyway? They're not that scary. Only a bit scary.
     
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    I don't have a problem with it, its been that way in NZ for ages. Not every girl suits Girl Scouts (or Girl Guides here), so why shouldn't they have the opportunity to join (Boy) Scouts.

    But imo it's a two way street - shouldn't boys have the opportunity to join Girl Guides / Scouts if they want to?
     
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    That's what Venture Scouts are for, they allow both boys and girls. What is bullshit, is how the Boy Scouts allow girls, yet the Girl Scouts don't allow boys.
     
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    The whole co-ed part of scouting has been brought up since homosexual boys were allowed in the BSA. I have been in scouts since the first grade and only had heard of these ideas in recent years. They created Explorer Scouts in the 70s and 80s and after that Venturing Crews. These were co-ed scout "troops" letting boys and girls participate in scouting activities like the National and World Jamborees. I personally think you can only be a boy to join the Boy Scouts. Its in the name. These groups were created along with Girl Scouts to set a line between the 4 that are available to women and men after obtaining the rank of Eagle like myself. You are no longer a boy scout after the age of 18. But in Venturing you can go until you are 21. This is my two sense on the subject..
     
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    Boy scouts and girl scouts together?. of course it may be like that. what's the problem? at least, boys and girls study together whole 12 +4 years at school, college. it's the same thing exactly.
     
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    A few months ago I went to the National Jamboree. On the service day all the scouts and scouters in attendance completed over 150,000 service hours from the 36,000 scouts that were there including me. They will never run out of funds or scouts.
     
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    Infinite society of scouts lol
     
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    Dude we probably did lowkey. All I did was patch trade.
     
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    Don't really see any problem with this besides continuing to have a separate Girl Scouts but I expect that may change in a few years. Maybe it would work better if instead of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, there were two groups segregated on how much effort they would be willing to put into it? I.e. 1 for those going hardcore and 1 for those just interested in the sociability/community. Meetups/National Jamboree etc. could still be together.
     
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    What’s the point of Girl Scouts then?
     
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    After looking briefly at the article it doesn't seem like the BSA troops will be co-ed. It just says that they are going to allow girls to join cub scouts, a group for younger kids, and then also offer them the ability to obtain the eagle scout rank. However the "Cub Scout Dens" will be single-gender so only boys in one group and only girls in the other. I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with this honestly, but please note I just looked at the article briefly and could have missed something.
     
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    Its called "Boy scouts" for a reason. If girls want to join a "scout" thing, then they can join Girlscouts. This whole thing is stupid.
     
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    Girls can join boyscouts but not the other way around? Hmm something seems illogical and very pointless...
     
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