Girl Scouts are learning from lesbians and feminists

Thank you for this article Sarah, I totally agree with you, but I would actually like to know how Michelle Tompkins responded to it!

I've been a girl scout for 20 + years now and I did meet my first girlfriend at Girl Scout summer camp :)

thank god girls are getting such a variety of role models in the scouts now. i was a brownie and a junior back in the day, and it was one of the most empowering experiences i had as a kid. but i know i would've benefited from learning about some of these women-- being exposed to the contributions made by so-called "radical" women, particularly lesbians, is an integral part of any comprehensive education in women's history.

wnd's take on it? TOTALLY not worth responding to. ugh.

brownie, junior, and senior scout here!!

thank you girls scouts of america!!

~~Deb

www.debontherocks.com

get your rocks off

WND forgot the obvious point that the very name "Girl Scouts" can be interpreted as "Those who scout for girls."

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Dana Rudolph
Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms
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I guess we're doing something wrong in Norway, I'm the only lesbian scout i know. I do, however, know a few gay boys in scouts.

It must be because we never got a list of women to look up to. And we were never encouraged to speak up against anything. We were expected to. And we were never provided a list of songs to inspire us. hmmm... Maybe we should take a detour back to the 60s and keep boys and girls separate in scouts again, maybe then we'd have more lesbians :)

Think I'm going to suggest that in the next national forum. If I ever get a girlfriend, she'd have to be a scout to understand how I can spend three nigths a week and every other weekend in scouts ;)

I still go on the swings, but now my ass gets stuck.

If I knew this was happening I would have never dropped out before my Senior(i know stupid almost finish why did i not stick it out till the end lol). But my chapter was never really active and I felt as if I did not really belong. There was only 2 black girls in my chapter and one never showed up so I was basically the only one and I knew I liked girls so it was completely awkard for me and our chapter was affiliated w/ a church like a lot of other chapters so that was awkard too. I am just glad to know times are changing for the better : )

90 people get the swine flu, everyone wears masks; Millions of people get AIDs, no one wears rubbers.

I find it sad and fustrating when people have nothing better to do than make attacks on positive establishments.  Give me a break, do they have nothing better in their lives then thy have to stoop to attacking the Girl Scouts, which is also a non for profit!  I applaud the work the girl scouts do in teaching young girls valuable lessons and morals for life.  I myself, irnocally, didn't join the girls scouts because I thought it was to girly, haha.  On a side note my girlfriend on the other hand was a brownie and is currently employed by the Girl Scouts, the people I have meet who work there, all women and some gay, also have to be some of the strongest and nicest people I have ever had the chance to meet, and all of them love what they do because they know it has a postivie imapct on sociey.

I think GSUSA is well aware of how much they owe lesbians historically and now. 

My country's Guide organisation also has a non discrimination policy. I know what some lesbians have contributed in my local area in the past and hope to do them proud by offering a great programme and opportunities for girls here and now.

No one has mentioned this book:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Honor-Lesbians-Scouting-Experience/dp/188623102...

I was very happy to find this book a few years ago.

I've always said Girl Scout Cookies are evil!  Okay, I thought they were evil because of the forced gluttony, but still, EVIL!

They might as well be called Girl Scout Crackies!

lesbians, radical feminists and controversial figures as role models instead of other significant female pioneers."

   And who does WND recommend in their place? Ann Coulter?

"Third strike: Radical agenda-maker Hillary Clinton was a Girl Scout and a Brownie." 

A brownie is a girl scout, just one of several age-level groups involved in scouting. Ergo saying Hil was a brownie and a girl scout is redundant. (sorry, just a pet peeve of mine)

Also, I'm glad someone finally picked up on the fact that girl scouting is incredibly gay. By the time we graduated out of scouts, everyone in my troop had been at least bi-curious at one point (alot of times with each other- drama abounded) 

What is their problem? I know some of them religious fundamentalists may have problem with us lesbians, but feminists? Don't Chelsea Schilling know that without the feminists, she'll probably still be at home... doing housework, wearing long skirts, and serving her husband (i.e. still exists in parts of the world today, e.g. Afganistan.) She can't go to school, or write as a journalist for that matter.

Also, the toughest women I know are straight. ~ Alexander Hedison

I was a Girl Scout too. I volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, even though I wasn't a Christian.There are lesbians in Girl Scouts, but 80% of my fellow Girl Scouts are straight.

I have a greater issue with them going against feminists, because I read about the women's suffrage movement. The leaders were punished. They were beaten up, sent to jail, starved. Some of them nearly died. It was terrible. How can Chelsea Schilling as a woman, not respect all they've done for us?

I'm soooo glad my Mom pushed me into the Girl Scouts!

Kids, this is what lesbians look like in the wild.
Remember, you're more scared of them than they are of you.

^^^^^ LMAO!!!! ^^^^^^

I never knew the GS were so involved in women's issues.  This is fantastic!  I stopped supporting any boy scout when they adopted their homophobic crap.  It's so wonderful to see young ladies get educated on what it took to get to where we are.  We still have a long way to go, but we've also come quite far. 

I think I will have to donate to their cause to show support in the face of this rediculous article.  I should send a donation in honor of WND...

I find in general, the lack of support for women's organizations appauling.  I do some work with my local YWCA who struggles for funds for all types of womens programs, like domestic violence and single mothers and such.  But the YMCA get a half a million dollar grant for a new building so they can have more recreational programs?  Thats rediculous.