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500Hats43 karma

Cough cough /r/TalesFromRetail. /r/TalesFromYourServer. Cough cough

500Hats17 karma

In my (former Girl Scout) opinion, the Boy Scouts do a lot more outdoor ("manly") stuff and the Girl Scouts do a lot more inside ("womanly") stuff. But this disparity isn't necessarily due to the organization, but due to the individual troops and their leaders.

Scouting, in general, is fairly loosely organized. The national group sets up special events, and creates badges and honors you can obtain, but it's the individual troops and leaders that decide which events and which badges to attend/obtain.

As a whole, when you have 10 girls and their mothers planning a fun weekend, you'll end up with something different than if you had 10 boys and their dads plan it. Besides interest, there's a dispairity in the leader's skill levels in different activities. When I earned my sewing badge, my mom and our leaders already knew what they were doing. When we insisted on earning our camping badge, first our leaders had to go learn to camp so that they could teach us.

IMHO, Girl Scouts ( the organization) has everything in place to be just as outdoorsy as the Boy Scouts. They just need more outdoorsy leaders and more outdoorsy mothers to guide them. Unfortunately, a lot of girls are joining the Boy Scouts as a more realistic option.

Damn. I think I just talked myself into leading a Girl Scout troop.

500Hats12 karma

Girl Scout cookie sales are an annual fundraiser - similar to the Boy Scout annual popcorn sales.

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People driving cars hate to get stuck behind a garbage truck when it is making frequent stops to pick up trash.

500Hats9 karma

The Girl Scouts have the Gold Award, which takes similar time and effort to achieve. However, it's not nearly as well known.