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
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.