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I don’t remember the names, but I’ve seen at least two FReeper Scouting guys cheer girls in Scouting and effuse praise on the girls in their troops. Shocked me both times because, from an outsider’s perspective, it seems pretty obvious why each should be its own thing. Don’t get why they want to help destroy that institution.

I’ll give you one. It is me. I would be willing to bet these girls would kick your a$$ in the outdoors. When the young men of today grow up to be real men, they will want young women that can keep up with them.
The pioneers of this county walked from St. Louis to Oregon. They didn’t leave the women behind, the women walked right along beside them.

Scouts BSA teaches leadership. The merit badges are the tools and the camping is the classroom. If the scout is motivated, they can earn every merit badge there is. It is extremely rare to see a young man that motivated. Girls are that way all the time. They cause the boys to suck it up and get better.

Thanks for identifying yourself.

“I would be willing to bet these girls would kick your a$$.”

Rather than fix the GS, people have moved to destroy the BS. The BS wasn’t supposed to be a boy versus girl competition. At times, boys just want to spend time with their peers. They are moving toward playing computer games together and not having to conform to the woke culture and with your idea of a “real” man. If you are happy with the way it has turned out, great. The BS is dying, however.

First off, if the Daily Wire tried to be a little better than the MSM, they'd have reported that on January 7, 2021, National announced a DELAY in the proposed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion merit badge, "to allow for the careful consideration and evaluation of feedback received from a wide variety of commenters on the draft requirements." In other words, they got an earful from the rank and file and decided this isn't such a hot idea after all, especially since these ideas are redundant with the Scout Oath and Law.

Second, it's clear from the comments that very few people posting on this matter actually know how Scouting works. In sum, all REAL power and control is vested at the local Troop level; National, sadly, lost its way and is a hot mess - it's a bit like the saga of the NRA HQ, where they lost sight of their core mission and, in large measure, deserve what they've wrought. But National doesn't call the shots at the Council and/or individual unit level.

Third, the Scouting program has a century of excellence in developing the character and leadership skills of young men. The combination of Merit Badges, skills attainment, outdoorsmanship, TRUE care for the environment, advancement, and testing and feedback has given America and the World some outstanding leaders. All of these "new" organizations, whatever their temporal merits, will be tested - the devil attacks goodness. Will these effective Canadians bolt again, whining about a modernity from which they retreat again to form another organization? Or will they, as countless Scoutmasters, Assistant Scoutmasters, and Troop Committeeman and women, repel the onslaught of leftists and stand true while National implodes?

Fourth, the admission of girls is NOT, as some clealy ill-informed people believe, a watering down of the program OR a comingling of the boys and girls, or some trans etc expansion. The boys and girls have separate Troops, separate meetings, and (generally) separate leaders. To be sure, some of these initiatives are driven by falling enrollment. At the same time, the Girl Scouts has lost its way at the national and (generally) local level, and girls craving leadership opportunities ain't gettin' it from the schools.

Now, I think it is a FAIR debate point, if a leadership program that has worked for boys for 100+ years will work for girls. But that does not negate the reality, that your average girl wanting to join Scouting BSA prolly doesn't want to hang with Antifa teens and cyber bully the "little people." As such, we should at least CONSIDER the potential upside of offering a program to girls that is steeped in tradition, patriotism, and the founding values of this nation.

Again, National lost its way, and is a disgrace...just like the GOP. But just like how Trump used the GOP's underpinning conservatism to galvanize tens of millions of individuals, Americans can do the same at the local level with Scouting. The Troops remain solid in large measure, run for the most part by conservative people. If anyone posting has gone through the effort to volunteer at their local Troop, work with the Scouts via Two-Deep Leadership, become an Assistant Scoutmaster, and join the Committee and STILL found rabid leftism, let them speak.