This weekend, at age 16, Tunney will be one of nearly 1,000 girls and young women honored by the Boy Scouts in a virtual celebration of the inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts. It’s a major milestone, given the hallowed stature of a rank that has been attained over more than a century by astronauts, admirals, U.S. senators and other luminaries.
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The Boy Scouts are dead to me.....
ReplyDeleteNot the boy scouts then.
ReplyDeleteIs one required merit badge: "Th Successfully Administering of Open Air BJ's" or is that still only a Scoutmaster's requirement?
ReplyDelete"Boy" scouts. To hell with them. I'm a Scout, and damned proud of it. The Mandarins killed off the Girl Scouts, Brownies, and a slew of others in their quest for "diversity" and "inclusiveness". What they did want - their agenda - was to destroy the patriotic and Christian Boy Scouts who kicked their asses in the last century or so. The Scouts produced military and civilian leaders par excellence, with a tough moral standard. Now it's all about the 'feelze'.
ReplyDeleteWhy are they called the boy scouts? Intentional lower case.
ReplyDeleteSo glad my son Eagled before all this nonsense. Given the time frames involved since girls were admitted to Boy(ish) Scouts, there's no way 1,000 could have completed all the requirements. It takes years to attain the Life Scout rank and then a the Eagle requirements usually take a year or so, including the Service Project.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Had to be reduction in qualification.
DeleteRead the link, she attained all 137 badges and said it was a 2 year long odessey and the lock down was the reason she had all kinds of time to kill! Good on her for it, but on that note as an old scout i to believe it is the boy scouts not girl scouts and never should have been done!!! grayman
DeleteAs an Eagle Scout myself.... I wonder if the standards were lowered? I died to the Boy Scouts when they let homosexuals in and especially to be 'leaders'.... Something about violating the scout Oath to 'keep myself morally straight' just doesn't fit with that.
ReplyDeleteI actually feel sorry for the girls. The feminazis that head up the girl scouts have failed to provide a meaningful program. Thank goodness, Patriarchy to the rescue!!
ReplyDeleteJohn V
" prestigious rank of Eagle Scout". Not so much any more, will become equivalent of a participation trophy.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I have read that there are exclusive for girls boy scout troops.
Daryl
Now that doesn't bother me half as much as co-ed troops. Boy Scouts is supposed to be an organization to help boys become men (mind out of gutter, please) and to do that they need to be with other boys, not with girls. Boys act completely different when girls get involved. If the girls want to go camping and do "boy scout" activities by their lonesome, fine. But just keep the boys and girls separated.
DeleteI've told a bunch of them selling shit at stores that I would buy from Boy Scouts, but not the Sissy Scouts that they've become. And I make sure the Scout leader hears it.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteOne of over a dozen reasons why I put my boy in Trail Life. We broke off from the "boy" scouts in 2013.
-Just A Chemist
At the risk of disagreement I'm going to throw this out there. When I was Boy Scout Leader many girls, mostly the sisters of the Scouts, came to me and said they wanted to join the Boy Scouts because they were disgusted with the Girl Scouts and wanted to do the activities we were doing. The reasons the Boy Scouts are dead to me are: 1. The committees that run the individual troops consist largely of 8th grade level divorced man-hating over the hill single Moms (I didn't know the term "Karen" back then), and 2. Dealing with other peoples totally out of control Ritalin doped kids. Anytime we went on a camp out we had to have the drug schedule for the troop. The Philmont experience was one of the best things my sons ever did but the vast majority of kids in the Scout program will never be ready for that or anything else. The future of this country is in deep trouble.
ReplyDeletePhilmont, Northwoods canoe trip, hiking Lincoln Trail, Jamborees. Those were the good old days.
DeleteLiterally nothing the democrats do not destroy once they touch it.
ReplyDeleteI was kicked out of the Boy Scouts because of my enthusiastic use of pyrotechnics early in my life. The US Army and the US Cavalry did not have issues with it. And the crazy part? I was given the responsibility of leadership. Upon a trip home to visit my mom i stopped by a beer store, in uniform, to pick up supplies. The guy at the counter remembered me from my stint in the Boy Scouts, I asked him if this was his store? His reply was he was just a clerk., I laughed and said how’s that Boy Scout thingy and badges all working out for you? By that time I was a 0-4.
ReplyDeleteAre female eagles refered to as Hens? Wikipedia doesn't address what males and females are called. So we shall go with Toms and Hens from now on to refer to Scouts.
ReplyDeleteHad it occurred when I was a 15yo Explorer, some of those girls likely would have received a lot of very close mentoring.
DeleteStarted using the old scout books and a borrowed building to create our own thing. Just dont call it Boy Scouts or Scouts, teach the same damn stuff though. Older books are the best BTW. Real scout stuff, none of this "citzen of the world" crap.
ReplyDeleteHe or She or What ever Scouts.
ReplyDeleteI understand girls wanting to do more then sell cookies. That said does anyone remember Explorer Scouts? When I was young the Explorers were after you “aged out” or wanted to continue after making Eagle. It was co-ed and the uniform was a dark green shirt and tan pants.
ReplyDeleteJFM
"given the hallowed stature of a rank"
ReplyDeleteNot quite sure that Eagle Scout rises to the level of "hallowed". Yes, it is an honor and an accomplishment, but "hallowed"? Not so much.
Eagle Scout here (with two brothers who are Eagles)-having daughters and a keen interest in scouting I was glad when my wife offered to be a Girl Scout leader. Almost as thankless as being a PTA officer. The local GS council had just enough feminists on staff that their policies routinely wanted little or nothing to do with fathers-and in those days fathers meant men. Give us money: yes, of course. Help out when girls are present: HELL NO. Fuck 'em up their rosie reds.
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