• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    in the US at least boy scouts doesn’t exist anymore, they renamed, now there’s just scouts and girl scouts

    they should just call them popcorn scouts and cookie scouts imo

    I was in boy scouts for a while just for the camping and backpacking really, there’s a bunch of requirements for advancing and stuff that I just completely ignored

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        It’s because the Scouts (formerly Boy Scouts) started accepting girls in 2019, prompting the name change. However, they are a separate organization from the Girl Scouts so they still exist. But without that context it does sound sexist

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        they want to make it sound like it’s not just for boys

        there were a number of years in the middle where girls were allowed to join but it was still called boy scouts

        girl scouts is a separate organization tho, idk if they really have influence over each other

        • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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          yeah, my recollection is (simplified and excluding nonbinary) Scouts USA = boys and girls allowed, historically only boys. popcorn. around here, better facilities overall. Girls Scouts = no boys, historically only girls. cookies. around here, better program overall. as in all local organizations, whether you have a good troop/club/whatever depends on the local individuals more than the governing organization.

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            20 hours ago

            The only part of being in girl scouts I liked, selling those cookies. Me, twin, and a red ryder wagon filled with cookies going door to door.

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            Would you also call it “normal” sports and women’s sports, since women are allowed in men’s sports but not the other way around?

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              Yes in that case? Thats kind of a dumb question. If one group allows any entry and the other is a segregated group. Then the fully inclusive group would be by default the standard in most given context and the segregated group would be a speciality group.

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      I was in cub scouts and it was just a way for dads to hang out while their kids fuck around. We sold popcorn too I guess