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To: mrmeyer

Did you not read my earlier post. Sisters have been participating in virtually all scounting activities for years. Cub scouts is a family organization. Scouting is just making it possible for the girls to advance through the ranks. I repeat the girls have always been there. They boys don’t really pay much attention to the girls. You have an opinion based on a preconceived notion. I have seen it with my two old eyes. It will have little to no affect on the boys scouting experience and will give the young girls an opportunity to learn the lessons scouting has been teaching the boys for years.


98 posted on 04/30/2018 4:53:20 PM PDT by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: BubbaBobTX

Girls have no business being with boys in Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts boys need an environment where they can learn to be men in the presence of other boys and act like boys boys do not act like boys when girls/females are present.


107 posted on 04/30/2018 5:17:58 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: BubbaBobTX
"Sisters have been participating in virtually all scounting activities for years."

The Jaycees used to be a men only organization. For decades they had a sister organization called the Jayceettes. This worked wonderfully for decades as the Jaycees grew and performed amazing feats like putting on national golf tournaments, aiding in natural catastrophes, etc.

Then the feminists decided that it was wrong. The Jaycees went coed. I was a member and it was fun and we did some things on a much smaller scale: bingo fundraisers, Christmas tree sales, etc.

When I joined the membership had plunged. Instead of more women joining, both men and women left in droves.

Being a Jaycee was now just like going to work or working on a political campaign or working for a charity. Why become a Jaycee?

This happened to lots of other organizations as well. Men tend to like things that most other men tend to like. Women like different sorts of things. Organizations that provided opportunities for men to meet together to plan and organize charitable events were great. Sister organizations that worked alongside the men to help out at the events were also great.

Regardless of what you have seen with your old eyes, I can assure you that what you will see if girls are fully integrated into the Cub Scouts is that membership will completely tank. Boys and girls will get their entertainment and training from school activities and/or organized sporting clubs. There will be no need to join the Cub Scouts as it will no longer provide anything that can't be learned somewhere else.

And if the only thing that the Cub Scouts taught that was different was hiking and camping, then that's not gonna be a really big draw for an increasingly urbanized population.

109 posted on 04/30/2018 5:22:02 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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