The Boy Scouts are on a mission of inclusiveness. First was the gay troop leaders. Check. Included. Then it was girls. Check. Included.
Now the Girl Scouts have a problem. Boy Scout inclusiveness threatens their viability.
I think this issue is caused by the seemingly puzzling confusion on the difference between boys and girls and those who want to placate the confused people. It does however provide much entertainment.
Scout's Recruitment war raises questions about what it means to be a girl or a boy:
Actually, it only raises that question to the confused people.
Last month, the Girl Scouts filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts for allegedly infringing on its trademark, sowing confusion and creating unfair competition. The battle between the youth programs echoes a divide that has been playing out across many arenas of American life amid the #MeToo movement, raising fresh questions about what it means to be male or female in 2018.
The Boy Scouts’ plan — which includes rebranding its namesake program as Scouts BSA — was at first praised by many as an important stride toward inclusivity. But not long after, the president of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America fired off a letter to the Boy Scouts of America that accused the male organization of waging a “covert campaign to recruit girls,” one that would “result in fundamentally undercutting” the Girl Scouts.
The dispute is now playing out across the country, with Girl Scout leaders going on the offensive to shepherd their organization into a new era of competition. At the center of that battle is the question of whether girls will get more “adventure” if they join the Boy Scouts, or whether the high value being placed on outdoor sports and survival skills is just another reflection of a male-dominated society that has little to do with teaching girls to be strong, confident leaders.
But Lidia Soto-Harmon, chief executive of the Girl Scouts Council of the Nation’s Capital, said it’s still important to combat the “stereotype out there that Girl Scouts don’t do high ad*ven*ture.”
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