To be fair, the girl scouts is a joke. They dont do anything like the boy scouts do, they are similar in name only. I can understand wanting to do something similar to the boy scouts-camping, hiking, canoeing etc but be girl only. It was probably just easier to use what the boy scouts have already established instead of starting their own thing. Boy scouts should have either rebranded themselves or spun off a different division for girls.
Exactly. I noticed that when I was a kid that the boy scouts do badass things like hiking, learning survival skills, fishing, shooting guns, making cool things out of wood, etc... while the girl scouts was basically a cute pyramid scheme to guilt trip people into buying $12 cookies.
The girl Scouts is all about business. When it started it was used to teach girls how to be better in a men dominated business world and help them learn money and shit.
It does that pretty well. What I see as a problem though is they are running the business themselves. They learn finances, sales, and inventory. But they don’t learn management or leadership. That’s where the BSA troop program excels.
That actually makes a lot of sense and learning that kinda gave me a new respect for it tbh. I figured they were just using the little girls to make customers out of their friends and family lol.
I was a cub scout in the 90s, and I wish our troop did cool stuff like that. We just had a few meetings where our moms read out of the book. I think we did go camping ONCE, but we didn't really do or learn anything
Your point is spot on, but what this women did really should have been the starting point. Rather than letting in girls, starting a "Same shit Boy Scouts do but with all girls" would have been the logical starting point.
Girl Scouts is basically a slut training camp to sell cookies and keep Planned Parenthood in business.
Yep. I don't have daughters, but my friends that do around that age all bitch about the Girl Scouts. They don't learn anything at all. The Girl Scouts is no longer a scouting organization, it's a multi-billion dollar cookie company.
If I had a daughter and there were an all-girls Boy Scout troop, I'd enroll her in that before letting a corporation use her as free child labor.
There are other organizations that are more like an actual scouting group for girls, but there aren't any where I live.
yep. they're basically a cookie sales company skirting child labor laws. if you were a girl who wanted to go camping and learn about the outdoors, and saw what the BSA did and then looked at what the girls scouts were doing, you'd be pissed.
I don't see how that's the BSA's fault though. personally, I think the BSA should have just sponsored the start of a new organization, that while funded and influenced by the BSA was its own distinct entity.
To be fair, the girl scouts is a joke. They dont do anything like the boy scouts do, they are similar in name only. I can understand wanting to do something similar to the boy scouts-camping, hiking, canoeing etc but be girl only. It was probably just easier to use what the boy scouts have already established instead of starting their own thing. Boy scouts should have either rebranded themselves or spun off a different division for girls.
Exactly. I noticed that when I was a kid that the boy scouts do badass things like hiking, learning survival skills, fishing, shooting guns, making cool things out of wood, etc... while the girl scouts was basically a cute pyramid scheme to guilt trip people into buying $12 cookies.
In modern clown world the second set of skills is more useful.
The girl Scouts is all about business. When it started it was used to teach girls how to be better in a men dominated business world and help them learn money and shit.
It does that pretty well. What I see as a problem though is they are running the business themselves. They learn finances, sales, and inventory. But they don’t learn management or leadership. That’s where the BSA troop program excels.
That actually makes a lot of sense and learning that kinda gave me a new respect for it tbh. I figured they were just using the little girls to make customers out of their friends and family lol.
Oh it's all about the cookies now but it started to help girls get a leg up in a men driven world.
Which is why many parents wanted their girls in the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scouts have a different mission, and many girls wanted to be a part of that.
I was a cub scout in the 90s, and I wish our troop did cool stuff like that. We just had a few meetings where our moms read out of the book. I think we did go camping ONCE, but we didn't really do or learn anything
Thanks to Boy Scouts I learned how to operate firearms when I was 13-14 years old, and have been an enthusiast ever since.
Uptrump for this perspective. In a would-you-rather situation, I would rather send a daughter to an all-girls scouts troop over a girl scout troop.
Your point is spot on, but what this women did really should have been the starting point. Rather than letting in girls, starting a "Same shit Boy Scouts do but with all girls" would have been the logical starting point.
Girl Scouts is basically a slut training camp to sell cookies and keep Planned Parenthood in business.
I'm out of the loop on the PP thing....what do they have to do with them?
They give PP their members info.
....why?
Yep. I don't have daughters, but my friends that do around that age all bitch about the Girl Scouts. They don't learn anything at all. The Girl Scouts is no longer a scouting organization, it's a multi-billion dollar cookie company.
If I had a daughter and there were an all-girls Boy Scout troop, I'd enroll her in that before letting a corporation use her as free child labor.
There are other organizations that are more like an actual scouting group for girls, but there aren't any where I live.
yep. they're basically a cookie sales company skirting child labor laws. if you were a girl who wanted to go camping and learn about the outdoors, and saw what the BSA did and then looked at what the girls scouts were doing, you'd be pissed.
I don't see how that's the BSA's fault though. personally, I think the BSA should have just sponsored the start of a new organization, that while funded and influenced by the BSA was its own distinct entity.
they did, they called it scouts, and they got sued.