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Girl Scouts = "tactical arm of Planned Parenthood"

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited February 2012
"Because the Girl Scouts do not denounce birth control, non-Christians, or the LGBT community, a growing number of wingnuts have decided that the youth organization promotes abortion, paganism and "homosexual lifestyles." Some churches have even begun kicking out Girl Scout troops:

Several Girl Scout troops in Chantilly, Va., have been banned from meeting at a local Catholic church and a neighboring school.[...]

According to the Arlington Diocese, the pastor did not believe the National Girl Scouts membership to the World Association of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts aligned with the message of the church, stemming from a perceived connection between WAGGGS and Planned Parenthood

The anti-Girl Scout fringe also has at least one elected official on its side: Indiana Republican State Rep. Bob Morris refused to vote for a resolution celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts because after "talking to some well-informed constituents" and conducting "a small amount of web research," he determined that the Girl Scouts are a "tactical arm of Planned Parenthood" that encourages "homosexual lifestyles.""

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love my small amounts of web research! That's how I found out my night sweats probably mean I have AIDS

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  • 12341234
    "The tactical arm of Planned Parenthood" is such a wonderfully amazing phrase.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    They really do hate girls
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    honestly. I wish they'd just be straight up about it. It's like, the homophobic rhetoric is so honest, a lot of the time. "I just straight up hate gay people and think they are disgusting." But the rank misogyny of the right wing is NEVER this honest. I wish they'd be like "I fucking hate, and am terrified of, women." Of course they never would, which is why this shit can remain so impervious to criticism. "What??? I don't hate women, I love women! My mother is a woman! I just want to control and legislate every single thing a woman is allowed to do in the world, in her marriage, and with her body"
  • LelandLeland
    edited February 2012
    Wow. Now I kind of want my little J-dog to sign up.

    Were any of you ladies scouters?

    Lots of chocolate mint cookie selling, right?

    I was a cub briefly. We made some bath salts for Mother's day. I liked the book full of projects, though I didn't make much of a career out of it.

    Did we talk about this already?
  • 12341234
    I'm a registered Republican and I don't hate women.
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    I was a Brownie and a GS for many years. I can still sing the songs, I sold many a box of cookies. It was great, and their acceptance of TG kids makes my heart warm.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    give it time, Mikey.

    I wanted to be a brownie SO BAD but my mom straight up said she didn't want to be a den mother or whatever. Now when I remind her of that (which is often) she is so embarrassed.

    it's weird how much more legit the girl scouts are than the boy scouts, in terms of their federal leadership and platform principles.

  • freddyfreddy
    I did not like girl scouts. It was just a total popular girl clique. There was an odd number of girls so I never had a buddy. It took me a couple of years before I got up the gumption to tell my mom I didn't want to go anymore. We didn't do cool things, either - who cares about your vinyl stitched situpon or your tile trivet?

    I am sure there are many GS troops who do cool things, though.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I was a girl scout throughout elementary school. I think all the troops are different according to the community... So many cookies (to me they are Caramel Delights not Samoans). Make new friends but keep the old one is silver and the other gold
  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    edited February 2012
    a circle's round, it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend
    I have a hand, and you have another, put them together and we have each other

    I was briefly a Brownie but my single mom wasn't consistently able to get me to meetings or pay my dues so I became a Brownie drop out. I remember being so jealous when my former troop members graduated to being real girl scouts and wore the green sash and the little hat.

    Each year I have a handful of girl scouts in my class. They're always the arty/crafty girls with mild speech impairments and I love them.
  • LelandLeland
    Thanks scout alumnettes! I appreciate the diversity of your impressions!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    God bless the single parent. Mine was supposed to bake my pie for the after-school pie contest. Time passed... the pie was burned. My parent brought the burned pie to the contest. From across the gym, I saw my teachers laugh at the burned pie.
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    favorite advice my american grandma ever gave me:
    "Don't be a GS troop leader when you're going through menopause"
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    edited February 2012
    I was obsessed with both of my parents old scout manuals as a kid- especially my dad's. So many great illustrations of how to use an axe! Making a fishing pole! Water rescue!

    I also really fetishized the uniform catalogs that came in the mail. The sashes and badges are precious charms, and then there is every permutation of the outfits- kind of like for mailmen. When I actually joined the Brownies I found it interminally boring and only attended one or two meetings and one camping trip... it was mostly just girls giggling and some talk of sewing. BORING!

    On the other hand, summer camp fills that void pretty well in terms of doing outdoor stuff, learning songs about friendship, braiding lanyards, etc. I went to camp every summer, almost all summer, which is the plight of an only child who has working parents.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    "From across the gym, I saw my teachers laugh at the burned pie. "


    !!!!!!!!!
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I wonder if they laughed at the burned pie or if they were laughing about something and you perceived it that way. MEMORY.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    For sure they were like "look at that, a burned pie!" Pointing, laughing the whole thing. HOW COULD I EVER FORGET THAT????
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    WHY ARE PEOPLE SO CRAZY MEAN? I am sorry that happened to you.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    thank you fellow GS... you understand me.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    At least you were spared them tweeting a picture of the pie and saying "LOL PIE FAIL"
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited February 2012
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  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    Today I bought GS cookies from the little cuties parked outside of Stumptown on Belmont. Thin Mints in the freezer gives me deep midwestern nostalgia/enjoyment.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited February 2012
    A lady had a whole fkn box of them at the *us stop and she never offered to sell what a d.b.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    SAMOANSSSSSSSS GIMME

    TOO BAD I DON'T KNOW ANY LITTLE GIRLS
  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    http://cookielocator.littlebrownie.com/
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    !!!!!!!!!!!!
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I only have 3 samoan cookies left :(
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    it is dreadfully easy to eat an entire box of samoas in one sitting.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    does anyone else know them as caramel delights?
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Crisis averted. I went to Fred Meyer and bought 3 more boxes. Planning to ration them over the next few months. Don't laugh at me, I actually do have the self control to do that ;)

    I wanted to buy them on my way out of FM, but my addict brain wouldn't let me because it was afraid they would run out (Andy bought the last box last time).
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I think I do remember their caramel delight phase, but at that time I was heavier into thin mints.
  • LelandLeland
    edited February 2012
    I smile when I think about people from Samoa hearing that those cookies are also called Caramel Delights. My brain makes an instant Dave Chappelle skit out of it for me.

    This is sort of, but not necessarily, a plug for the Gauguin/Polynesia show at Seattle Art Museum. I hear it is a winner and Gauguin comes off like a big syphilitic, pretty painting, jerk.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    The name "Samoas" is presumably an allusion to the tropical island of Samoa, derived from the tropical ingredients of coconut and cocoa.
    wikipedia
  • LelandLeland
    "presumably"

    Thank you.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    You guys ever have that ice cream with samoas in it? Purty good.
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    Dunno if this really belongs in this thread or the politics 2012 one, but I am very impressed by OK State Senator McIntyre...

    http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2012/02/oklahoma_sen_judy_eason_mcintyre_protests_anti-abortion_bill_with_f-bomb_photo.html
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    did you guys see this? So funny this guy is still even around:

    "Sandra Fluke is the Georgetown law student who Democrats had asked to testify at the infamous no-girls-allowed hearing Republicans held about women's health. Democrats held their own hearing to get her testimony on the record, which led to a tirade that was repulsive even by Limbaugh's standards. Limbaugh called Ms. Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" and said "if we're going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch." "

    pretty much sums it up
  • MatthewMatthew
    I hate everything.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    the repubs sure wear their freudian issues on their sleeves! I think it's great
    they are all obviously huge sex perverts
    can you even IMAGINE what santorum gets up to in his private life? Hopefully we will all find out very soon...
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    cock & ball torture, obvs
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    "micro-dick abuse"
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