as much as i have hate in my heart for mr. zeigler, i've worked with the girl scouts for years and every adult i've met fits nicely into at least one of those categories.
@3 No, the Girl Scouts of the USA do not have any ties at all to the Boy Scouts of America. They don't exclude gays or atheists and allow scouts to decide for themselves whether to say "God" in the oath or replace it with a diety of their choice (or skip it). In fact many christian groups have boycotted the girl scouts and refuse to buy their cookies.
I'm not sure if it is their alliance with the abortion industry and planned parenthood, or if it is just their magic sashes that make the cookies so damn good, and i really don't care.. I wants some now. dammit.
I was a Girl Guide (as they are called in Canada) leader for a number of years, and while lesbians were thin on the ground, feminism and cookie fetishes were definitely common. I tried, in vain, to have a new badge recognized, the Barista badge, but ultimately was unsuccessful.
WTF? I'm an Adult Girl Scout (lifetime member) and have been a Girl Scout since the age of 12, and there is a huge variance in the kind of girls/women involved. The other girls in my troop were all sweet, kind, virginal Southern Belles in the making, except for one, and she was a hyperactive class clown. In my sister's troop they're half vegetarians and half rootin tootin South Will Rise Again pork cracklin junkies.
BTW, us Campfire girls were always the tough ones from the poor parts of town, and those Girl Scouts were always the snooty princesses. Suck it, Zeiger.
"Despite common belief, the name Otis Spunkmeyer is not actually referring to any person. The name was a whimsical creation of the then 12-year-old daughter of the company's founder."
maybe she was a Girl Scout plant, or maybe she....
I was a Girl Scout for many years, and encountered the first lesbians of my life in the counselors at sleep away camps. It was a good opportunity for a girl growing up in the nineties to see that lesbians are just like everybody else. I really hope other girls took this away too.
As for the radical feminist bit, what I remember most about Girl Scouts was the obsessively PC attitude floating around camp, which led to a lot of perfectly decent songs getting banned for the sake of an odd lyric, usually about kissing. (Apparently we shouldn't be socializing kids to be aware of smooching cannibals and aardvarks.) All the things we weren't allowed to do drove me crazy.
But then, there was that work party where they gave us sledge hammers and let us destroy some old bathrooms... pretty radical.
At least you got the "not after" part correct Dan.
Treble redundancy.
I love the cookies. Well, mostly the thin mints.
I was seriously worried we had the monopoly on it.
Mmmmmmmm.... samoas...
And btw - leave my girl scout cookies alone!!
Otis Spunkmeyer simply does not fuck around.
You think I'm joking?
I still endorse Campfire. Lesbians are the best, and you actually learn to build fires and shelters.
"Despite common belief, the name Otis Spunkmeyer is not actually referring to any person. The name was a whimsical creation of the then 12-year-old daughter of the company's founder."
maybe she was a Girl Scout plant, or maybe she....
oh, gawd, don't wanna go there.
As for the radical feminist bit, what I remember most about Girl Scouts was the obsessively PC attitude floating around camp, which led to a lot of perfectly decent songs getting banned for the sake of an odd lyric, usually about kissing. (Apparently we shouldn't be socializing kids to be aware of smooching cannibals and aardvarks.) All the things we weren't allowed to do drove me crazy.
But then, there was that work party where they gave us sledge hammers and let us destroy some old bathrooms... pretty radical.
The cookie thing is 100% true.
Honestly, I was in the Girl Scouts for years and they are mainstream conservative Republican. Or, in my time and place they were, anyway.
I'll bet they're a sleeper cell, gladly letting the GSA take all the attention and heat off of them.
j/k