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Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

Well, apparently I haven't realized this, but women seem to be taking all the things we kept them from having, which is good, or whatever. I mean, I'm n

The Saudi Arabians are letting women drive, which I feel no one on this site could possibly disagree with, so there's not much worth mentioning there. I mean, far too many twats are praising Saudi Arabia and King Salman, which is like praising a rapist for starting to wear condoms. It's a country of anti-democratic, hyper-religious fucks who finance terrorists and have crucifixition and stoning as an available punishment. Anyhow, it's a step forward, I supppose.

It seems the boy scouts are going to start letting girls into their organization, which didn't take long since they let in all the gays. I found this pretty interesting, because it destroys the need for girl scouts as well as the boy part of boy scouts. Apparently the two groups upset about this shit are the Girl Scouts, quite justifiably as these fuckers are stepping onto their turf, and there's also quite a few people who think that women shouldn't be allowed in the scouts because, shit, I don't know, FEMINISM WANTS TOO MUCH! and some other shit. Anyhow, seems like a good idea because girl scouts is supposedly shittier than boy scouts. 

So big time Jew King Weinstein is in trouble for apparently sexually assaulting like every sexy famous person ever. Oh, and apparently Andy Signore, the guy behind Honest Trailers, also sexually assaulted a bunch of people. Anyhow, famous people sexually assault people all the time, and that's supposed to be surprising. But yeah, two famous men can't even fingerblast a bitch when she doesn't want it. Ugh, liberals. 

Anyhow, just another of Steve's delightful updates.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

They might as well just combine boy and girl scouts since both organizations are losing members anyway.

Never heard of Andy until the sexual harassment stuff.
 

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
Girl Scouts are badly organized and rely on child labor while teaching and doing nothing actually fun or interesting so this is a good change for girls. Boy Scouts probably aren't as popular as they used to be because their image is one of dorks and bring to mind that fat kid from Up more than anything.

Combine both organizations and rename and re-brand then as something about surviving the post-apoc to make kids think they're cool again imo.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

When the boy scouts said that they were going to let girls into their organization, I was actually pretty pissed. There's a purpose why boy scouts is called boy scouts, and a reason why girl scouts is called girl scouts. Being a female myself, I believe that it just goes against the purpose of the two organizations. I'm pretty sure that most girls wouldn't want to sell popcorn and salty treats and to learn how to survive in the wilderness and I'm pretty sure that boys don't want to be educated on "how to be a better friend." (Yes, when I was in Girl Scouts I had to learn about all of that "friendship" crap. Really got me frustrated.) 

I don't mean to be sexist, but I'm just talking about the majority. I'm honestly fine with camping and those derby races, but the majority of girls (not singling out anyone) wouldn't want to pee in a hole. Also, I doubt that the girl's parents will allow their daughter to camp out with a bunch of boys. I don't truly know if the boys are horny, but you never know. There is a benefit though, the girl and boy scouts aren't doing that well, so maybe this can help raise the amount of money made and hopefully the organizations can survive. 

There's actually good news that the Saudi Arabians are actually letting women drive. But people shouldn't praise Salman. Also, he should have enacted this law earlier. But as Steve had said, "It's a country of anti-democratic, hyper-religious fucks who finance terrorists and have crucifixition and stoning as an available punishment," it is a step forward, so woo-hoo! 

 

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

So... you agree that the friendship stuff was bullshit and you hated it, but rather than, I don't know, not make girls deal with that through joining the non-pussy scouts, you just don't care. I know enough girls in my personal life who'd love to join the scouts and I've heard enough reports from other people whose daughters would like to do the same. At that point, I'm not sure why we wouldn't let them. Unless the purpose of the two organizations is to uphold these gender norms by not letting girls do the boy stuff or boys do the girl stuff, which I feel they aren't.

You argue that the majority of girls wouldn't want to do this, which I don't necessarily think is true, but even if it was, so? If that's the case, only the girls who DO want to do the cool stuff would join the Boy Scouts. So yeah, even if most girls don't want to do it, I don't see the issue with letting the ones that do do so.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
Please Steve whatever, like you're going to find a single girl who want to go outdoors and be near gross boys instead of selling cookies and putting glitter on things.

Also I'll just go ahead and assume tents will be co-ed and involve zero adult supervision because why not. That's a completely normal and non-stupid thing to just immediately assume, right? So the true dealbreaker is that obviously a responsible parent would never allow their child to take place in mixed-gender activities, like what do they think this is, public school?

But none of this is addressing the most problematic issue at all, which is that neither scout troop awards badges for watching anime.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

Well, depends where you live. Where I live, the girls are these snobby bitches who are rarely seen without makeup, and they're always clutching their phones and gossiping. Some of them are sane, and those are the ones I prefer to hang out with though. Steve, I would join the Boy Scouts to save my sanity. But it still defeats the purpose of  why the scouts are meant for different genders. The girls who want to do the cool stuff can go ahead and join the boy scouts, since you can either learn about the friendship crap, or you can actually DO something FUN by doing those derby races. 

They should let boys into girl scouts to see how shittier it is compared to boy scouts. 

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

Well already, you'd be willing to join the boy scouts, as would your friends, so yeah, you should be allowed to. I genuinely have no idea what your point is at this point. I mean, apparently you're super teenager-y about those "snobby bitches" in your neighbourhood, but I don't know why I should care. We both agree that there exists girls who would like to do boy scouts, and boy scouts for many is better than girl scouts.

What was the purpose of making the scouts two different genders? I'd think it harkons back to a sexist time where we thought women should stay in the kitchen and bake cookies or whatever. There doesn't seem to be a reason to keep them gender segregated. So unless you have one, I've no idea why you're arguing against it. Are... are you on my side, now? Did I win the argument? Or... fuck, I don't know.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

Shit I'm just so confused. I think that you won the argument. I heard that some boys were pissed about girls joining their scouts, so that might be a potential problem.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

I'll take the win, then. Plus, the boys are going to whine for like a week and then get back to being children, so fuck that noise.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
Why does not wanting to be seen without makeup make girls 'snobby bitches'?

Feminists are taking all our -Boy Scouts-

6 years ago

Face it, that's the only interesting topic you mentioned. 

Looks like BSA hasn't even changed its name yet, though. In the future, girls joining Scouting might have to say "I'm a Boy Scout" with a completely serious face. The Girl Scouts still exist, too, so this isn't even a merger yet. It's mostly just hurting Girl Scouts, which already mostly sucks to begin with. 

Plus, Boy Scouts already has a program called Venturing that includes males and females, so this isn't much of a change.

(By the way, if Girl Scouts sell cookies, then what do Boy Scouts sell? Popcorn! Yes, I'm serious. Maybe in the future they'll merge and take over as the biggest junk food magnate in the country.)

I don't think inclusion of girls will help with membership much. Boy Scouts just needs a new advertising campaign/public image to showcase what actually goes on in Scouting, which can actually be pretty impressive at times.

Mizal's idea is a start, but I'm thinking bigger, more exciting. Drop the paperwork. Eliminate the merit badge system. The only rank will be Eagle Scout, and boy will it be difficult to get. Here are the new requirements:

1. Save someone's life using first aid.

2. Go on a 20 mile hike/50 mile bike ride. 

3. Hang on to a flying helicopter for 5 miles by tying yourself onto a rope dangling from the bottom of the helicopter. 

4. Collect 5 crabs at the bottom of a lake using only your body and a spear. Roast the crabs using only two sticks. 

5. Sleep out in the woods with no clothes on in northernmost Alaska. If you fall asleep for more than an hour and don't die, then you get the requirement.

6. Die for your country and come back. 

7. Every year, a huge melee arena fight will be held in every state welcoming all prospective eagle scouts. Participants can bring and use whatever they can carry in their hands to fight in a football stadium. The 10 surviving kiddos will become Eagle Scouts and jump off a cliff using only the American flag as a parachute in order to receive their prize. 

Motto: Be Prepared Only the Strong will Survive. 

Feminists are taking all our -Boy Scouts-

6 years ago

Nope. That just gets them the rank of "Pussywillow."

If they want the Eagle rank they have to do all that again like in that old Ghosts N' Goblins video game.
 

Feminists are taking all our -Boy Scouts-

6 years ago
Boy Scouts is at just plain scouting.org so that's a start. Just rename the whole damn organization Eagle Scouts and ranks are things like 'Scavenger' and 'Wasteland Scourge'.

Also, you forgot the bear wrestling requirements.

I envision future scouting careers as looking a little like Leo's journey in The Revenant.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
Interesting. I've only ever heard of scouts here; no boy or girl scouts, they were all in the same group. Maybe that was just how it was in our town, maybe the intire country, I have no idea. Either way, congrets to America for catching up.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
The Boy Scouts started in 1910 and the Girl Scouts a couple years later because feminists wanted to take all their stuff. Interestingly, it seems the girls did way more cool and fun things back then than they do now.

As for Slovenia:

History

The history of Scouting in Slovenia dates to when Slovenia was a part of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and possibly back to 1915. In 1922, a meeting of Sokol, an important political and sporting movement in Yugoslavia, took place in Ljubljana, and Bosnian and Serbian Scouts attended. Scouting was officially established in Slovenia in October 1922, when a large number of Scout groups in Slovenia contributed to the establishment of the Scout Parish for Croatia and Slovenia, founded in Osijek. The Slovenia Scout Region was established in early 1923 in Ljubljana. The first Slovene Scout and Guide camp was organized during the summer of 1923 at a Slovene alpine resort. Scouting in Slovenia was officially dissolved on June 10, 1941 because of World War II. Just prior to the dissolution, there were 1,380 members of the Slovene Scout Organization.

Scouting in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was coopted by the Tito government in 1950, at which time WOSM membership was forfeited. In 1951, individual Scout associations were founded in all then-Yugoslav republics, as branches of Savez Izvidaca Jugoslavije. The first of these was Zveza tabornikov Slovenije (ZTS) in Slovenia.

Slovene Scouting also continued in exile, at first in refugee camps, and afterwards in Argentina and Canada, and in the Slovene communities in nearby Gorizia and Trieste, where Slovene refugees found new homes. The Movement also revived among the Slovene ethnic groups in neighboring countries: The Slovene Carinthian Scouts (in 1957) in Austria (today part of the Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs); the Slovene Scouts of Trieste (Slovenske Zamejske Skavtske Organizacije (SZSO) Trst) in 1951 for boys and in 1958 for girls; and the Slovene Scouts of Gorizia (SZSO - Slovenski goriški skavti), in 1963 for girls and 1964 for boys.

In 1984, a secondary school student from Ljubljana, Peter Lovšin, became acquainted with the Scout Movement. He decided to begin apolitical Scouting in Ljubljana. In the summer of 1985 he went to camp with Scouts of Gorizia, and in 1986 he made the Scout Promise as one of their rank. In the same year he gathered a group of young people around him in one of the Catholic parishes of Ljubljana, with assistance from Scouts of Trieste and Gorizia. The group was growing and in autumn 1988 moved to another parish of Ljubljana. By the Saint George festival in 1989, 12 boys and girls made the Scout Promise, and by 1990, there were 21 Girl Guides and 18 Boy Scouts. The Catholic Scout Movement began to spread all over Slovenia. On March 31, 1990, the Združenje slovenskih katoliških skavtinj in skavtov (ZSKSS) was founded. The first legal Scout Promises were made by 29 Girl Guides and Boy Scouts, in a suburb of Ljubljana on May 20 of that year. Officially the ZSKSS was registered on Sunday, October 22, 1992.

In 1994, ZTS became the 138th member of WOSM. Two years later, ZSKSS was accepted as associate member of WAGGGS. ZSKSS received full membership in WAGGGS in 1999.

Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani and Scout Associations in Poland, Spain, Austria, and Ireland have been actively involved in the growth of Scouting in Slovenia.



Thanks Wikipedia!

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
america they separate it into boy and girl scouts. UK and commonwealth mostly just have "scouts" like you're talking about. boy scouts in america are most like the scouts you're thinking of. girl scouts in america sell cookies and thats pretty much all they ever do or are known for.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

I literally have no idea what the girls in Girls Scouts do outside of selling cookies.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
After a quick google search there are three things girl scouts do: hike, go to a science museum, and sell cookies.

never heard of them doing anything outside of selling cookies lol

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

Oh wait. Think I remember someone saying something about girl scouts hiking. Ah whatever.

Have you ever ate a cookie sold by them?

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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yeah they taste like shit. absolutely overhyped. I buy better tasting cookies from walmart for 10x less.

Anyone who thinks otherwise: fight me bitches.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

What kinds have you tried? Most are pretty generic, but I'll actually pay the $5 (or whatever it is now) for their samoas. It's outrageous, but they're delicious, and I've never found a good substitute.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
Girl scout cookies are just overpriced and repackaged Keebler cookies, and a lot of places have generic versions of even those that are just as good, and available year round.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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Huh. I feel like I've tried the Keebler equivalent of samoas, and it wasn't as good... could be psychological, though. Clearly I need to arrange a blind taste test. XD

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

They're charging you five dollars? Every time I've bought a single box of cookies, it's usually been about two dollars and fifty cents or maybe three dollars. Can't recall ever buying them for five dollars though.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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Wellll, I don't remember the exact price, I just remember thinking it was highway robbery. It used to be $2.50-$3.00, but I'm pretty sure it's a fair bit more than that now. *Googles* Yup! Looks like it depends on region, but it really is $5 in some areas.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

End, I am a GS, and the fucking prices are outrageous. It's like five per box.. And each box is so small. 

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

Sometimes if I got a few loose dollars in my pocket and the raggamuffins are begging in front of some place I happen to be entering at the time, I'll go ahead and buy some samoa cookies since I like those.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
They just sit at tables outside stores, usually with their moms, and can't even be bothered with a convincing guilt trip half the time. I'd buy a box only if they really worked for it.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

What about thin mints? I like those. I don't know what chemical they put in those cookies because they're so addicting. I finished a box in a day. 

 

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

I've eaten tons of cookies sold by them. They taste pretty good. 

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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At GS meetings, they just talk about their pathetic love lives, and they sell cookies and they talk about friendship crap. 

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

This whole girls allowed in boy scouts thing... wasn't it because of some girl who complained that the best badge or whatever in Girl Scouts wasn't has prestigious as the best badge in Boy Scouts? Tbh, I don't really want the two groups mixing. If people have a problem with the program, they should go and try to change the program itself. Not change a part of the foundation of Boy Scouts.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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No, the reason is the boy scouts is facing serious losses in numbers, so they're expanding who they let in. Your explanation seems like something some bullshit someone made up to make the change seem stupid. Anyhow, it seems to be a benefit, since girl scouts is apparently far more shit and less action-packed.

Anyhow, why don't you want them mixing?

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

Crap. I'm getting into a squabble with Steve. That seems like a much better explanation for why Boy Scouts are letting girls in than what I have thought.

I'd rather have the two organizations merge than let girls join Boy Scouts. What boy is going to join Girl Scouts? Wouldn't this just lower the number of girls in Girl Scouts (because I'm sure many girls would switch over to the more exciting Boy Scouts) in effect? Having two scout organizations, but one with only females and one with both males and females, is unbalanced. I think many would prefer the mix group, causing Girl Scout numbers to drop. :/

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

Point taken, that seems reasonable.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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Merging would make the most sense, but they're still completely different organizations and there are legal/financial/leadership issues preventing that I'd assume.

This definitely sucks for the Girl Scouts and will lead to declining numbers, but good, they suck anyway.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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Feminists are taking all our stuff

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I'm going to wait for someone else's reaction before clicking the link.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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same image on the discord in #pvm

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

First, Saudi Arabia is going to have more traffic problems since women are terrible drivers. Every time I almost get into an accident, it's because of a female driver. So no, I don't agree with what they did, but I fully support equal rights. Just so we're clear. To add to that, I've heard that the men there have been pulling women out of their cars and beating them. So yeah, that's a thing.

Girls being let into the Boy Scouts is absurd. It's called BOY scouts for a reason. Let the gays in if they want, fine as long as they are boys. The Girl Scouts aren't as good as the Boy Scouts because they aren't as popular or well funded, at least that's my guess. Maybe they need some male leadership. Why not?

Worst part about this fat Jewish dude molesting celebrities is seeing the hypocrisy when dealing with God Emperor Trump. He does a little locker room talk then gets falsely accused of shit and the left was all over him. This Hollywood guy does much worse and they took it easy on him and pushed it under the rug.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
Well hello Danaos, I missed you.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

That's sweet.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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I feel going for the woman shouldn't be allowed to drive card is weak, seeing as literally not even the Saudis are doing that anymore. Should've went with the islamaphobic extension of what I said about the Saudis, because we could've bought that.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

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What can I say, I'm a little rusty.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
Years and years ago, I think back when I was still in highschool I watched this thing on a Saudi millionaire who hired women into what basically looked like a modem office environment. They were well paid and not forced to conver their faces. There was a short interview and he was like 'it is so, so stupid to deny yourself 50% of your potential workforce, it just makes no sense'

So it may be that wealthy businessmen and those in power have seen the bigger picture for awhile now and would improve things in countless ways if they could. But then of course you deal with women being beaten or killed because the poor as usual are violent reactionary idiots who lack common sense and can only be relied on to fuck things up for themselves and everyone around them again and again and again no matter what.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago

I mean what kind of kid wants to go outdoors and hike compared to staying inside and playing COD and jerking it to Hentai. It really is hilarious how the boyscouts are trying to bamboozle the girl scouts by stealing their higher numbers. No doubt a lot more girls will join then would before with more acceptance of the tomboyish personality.

Watch boy scout cookies become a major thing, already calling it.

Feminists are taking all our stuff

6 years ago
The Boy Scouts already have half a million more members than the Girl Scouts.

Both groups are seeing declining numbers, but the Girl Scouts will obviously be hit hard by this. And that's okay because they are really poorly managed and kind of deserve it. They treat their employees like shit and so they have a huge turnover, plus they milk about 800 million dollars out of their child labor force every year while offering the kids less and less to do. Sales are the primary focus of the organization now and all the actual activities that aren't arts and crafts BS are on the decline.

But anyway it's kind of silly the way people are acting like it's some personal thing the Boy Scouts are doing to get at the Girl Scouts though. It makes perfect sense to not be blocking half the population from joining a group that's trying to get more members, and the idea of hiking and camping being male exclusive things is a pretty old fashioned one.

Even then lots of girls might prefer a girl-only environment, but I'm glad the option will be there for them to join the Boy Scouts if they find themselves bored as shit selling cookies.