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Sultan: Girl Scouts threaten legal action over troop's fundraiser for children in Gaza
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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Gonna put my sister in Boy Scouts cause they allow girls in there since a few years ago now. I wonder if they have any restrictions on foreign aid like this.
Afaik, the US is the only country still calling it "boy" scouts.
Everywhere else that I'm aware of, it's just Scouts. And it has been co-ed for at least a couple of decades outside of the US.
Yeah I like saying Scouts more than boy scouts. It's more inclusive that way.
Girl scouts may be wrong here, but they're still by far a better organization than the boy scouts.
There's something to be said for the skills that are taught and the overall purported ethos, but like the Catholic church, you absolutely cannot trust them to not cover up heinous shit that they'll allow to continue forever.
If you do, make sure you're present all the time and be aware that predators have found a home there since their inception.
Boy scout troops vary from place to place. I've been with my troop for many years and we're great. The next city over, I know a troop that runs things very differently and left. So ymmv