MEANWHILE….IN OHIO

My wife had some interesting insights, having grown up in a household in the early 1960s with brothers in the Boy Scouts and sisters in the Girl Scouts.

Her father was heavily involved in supporting the Boy Scouts, including going on outings, helping with projects, etc. ALL of the fathers in the neighborhood were the same. The Boy Scouts had REAL support.

Her mother was not involved at all in the Girl Scout activities, and she does not remember much involvement by the other mothers in the neighborhood. Indeed, moms at the time stayed home, kept the house, cooked the meals, etc. but dads went off to work all day too. Mom’s really were just not there for the Girl Scouts, or their daughters.

Personally I don’t see any reason why a girl should be PROHIBITED from learning any skill she desires (how to build a fire, shoot a gun, pitch a tent, bandage a wound, etc.). But societies have always had a “culture of men” and a “culture of women” for a reason. Each sex does their part of the greater scheme of things that need to be done in society and things that need to be done in the home.

If the Girl Scouts had women who supported the organization – other than simply badgering their co-workers to purchase overpriced cookies for their daughters every year – girls might find satisfaction with the Girl Scouts. If the Girl Scouts had “adapted” to the changing world (in ways other than simply allowing openly lesbian women to be scoutmistresses), and began incorporating USEFUL activities as part of their programs, or more diverse activities, girls would never have felt the need to demand that the Boy Scouts cut off their own proverbial balls and let girls join.

Boys need a safe place to be boys and to be around real men, more than ever before. They need a place to learn manly skills, be appreciated for being boys, and receive positive feedback for being who they are, free from the constant denigration they receive on TV, in movies, and in schools.

It is sad that the Girl Scouts is such a crappy organization and that the Boy Scouts sold out their own gender to the useless PC/SJW, crowd.

And full disclosure, I was never a Scout. My father and I were in the YMCA “Indian Guides,” where we engaged in unbelievably culturally-insensitive dress up activities and such (was recently going through some old photos – glad they never came up when I was running for political office), went on great group camping trips, hiking trips, etc. But it was a culture of men, and I relish the time I was able to spend with my father in that organization before he was taken from my life. Sons deserve the same opportunities with their fathers, free of women/girls. Even the cultures we consider as “primitive” get it. Why can’t we any longer?

Is irony dead?

Would that not make them Girl Scouts