doctorlinguist
🌕🕚 6 yr via Texnut
also, it's just gonna be "Scouts," not "Boy Scouts." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-scouts-will-admit-girls-allow-them-earn-eagle-scout-n809836
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🌕🕚 6 yr via Texnut
(as a former Boy Scout, I think this is a spectacularly bad idea, and will likely hasten the irrelevancy of the Boy Scouts of America.)
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🌕🕚 6 yr via Texnut
for the record, the Girl Scouts don't seem to be on board with this, and I don't blame them. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/11/boy-scouts-to-admit-girls-to-cub-scouts.html
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🌕🕐 6 yr via enuts
@doctorlinguist I was going to ask. Weird.
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🌖🕑 6 yr via Arachis
@doctorlinguist have to ask: why is it a bad idea?
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🌖🕑 6 yr via Texnut
@doctorlinguist If people wanted "Scouts," why didn't they just create a new group for it?
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🌕🕚 6 yr via Texnut
@mandy they're trying to soften this by making dens single-gender, but a lot of the more important activities occur at the pack level, which will be integrated. I think you'll see a lot of boys drop out of Scouting.
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🌕🕚 6 yr via Texnut
@mandy inevitably, as dens get smaller, they, too, will become integrated.
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🌕🕦 6 yr via Riposte
@mandy @doctorlinguist Making an organization from scratch is hard. Much easier to bend an existing organization to your goals.
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jws
🌘🕘 6 yr via Riposte
@doctorlinguist I like how they surveyed people not involved in scouting. Curious how surveys of those who are went. 🤣
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