Women- did you ever want to be a Cub Scout?

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Hazelwudi
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20 Oct 2007, 10:30 am

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Hope no one else thinks I'm too weird. But just wondering if other gals ever felt like I did? I was so envious when all the boys in 2nd grade were asked to join the Scouts. Then once a week they would come dressed in their cool Cub Scout shirts, yellow neckerchiefs and caps so they could attend their scouting meeting after school. I was always asking them what all their badges meant. I was totally envious because Girl Scouts at the time sucked and all they did was learn how to bake biscuits, sell Girl Scout cookies and learn housekeeping skills while the boys learned outdoors skills and how to build things.

Agreed, and it pissed me off too. Most of the girly things frankly struck me as an attempt to socialize people into a life of servitude, to make them regard bland non-personhood as a normal and desirable trait. I like actually doing things and learning things, not being stuck with the sh*twork while everyone else has a good time.

I'm that way even now, and if I am blessed with a daughter I shall raise her the same way.

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21 Oct 2007, 6:16 pm

Same here! I have a bit of a tomboy daughter, like myself. I Took my son camping for weeks. Boys get to better stuff. Didn't do the organized thing...just did it on my own. Dont' care about uniforms.

If you want to go do the stuff...just go do it! You'll love the experience and memories. Hell with sterotypes. Live!!

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04 Nov 2007, 9:12 pm

I was always dismayed that there was never a top level of achievement in Girl Scouts comparable to Eagle Scouts for the boys. It would have been more worthwhile sticking it out if there had been some pinnacle of achievement one could reach.

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04 Nov 2007, 9:14 pm

9CatMom wrote:

There was when I was in it in the 90's. It's called the Girl Scout Gold Award. I was working towards it for a while but stopped when my troop stopped having meetings. You have to have so many badges, and then do a large project. ITs been to long for me to clearly recall the details though

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05 Nov 2007, 12:28 am

No, never.

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06 Nov 2007, 5:28 pm

I WAS a cub scout. It was boring. Yech! The Girl Scouts were probably much more interesting, at least they had cooler looking uniforms.....and I would rather sell Girl Scout Cookies. We had to sell candy bars, and we had to buy them, and they were neither good, nor good for you, nor much fun to eat.

At least a number of years ago, Girl Scouts Ruled!

A former cub scout.

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09 Nov 2007, 10:32 pm

i was a girl guide, i joined when i was 11, the uniform was a blue cotton shirt, sash for badges, scarf with leather woggle and blue pants. a comfy uniform. we did things like cook, learn about other cultures, self defence and various things. we would go camping canoeing, horseriding all kinds of things. some peoples thought the guides were a mere mothers group as in all u did was talk which was not true.

I had fun times with the guides.
I never wanted to join the scouts.

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09 Nov 2007, 10:47 pm

what is a "woggle"?

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10 Nov 2007, 3:28 am

it is a leather band that goes around the scarf.

The cool thing about the guides was the cool things we would do. what i did not like is one of the laws which said a guide is cheerful and obedient. My leader did not like it either cos it encouraged following the herd and not having your own path. so that law was ignored mostly. u had to behave but u did not have to mindlessly follow every single command u got in your life. makes sense really.

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22 Dec 2007, 1:24 am

When this girl in my class in grade 2 said she was in cubs I wondered how she'd got in; I was jealous. I thought (and think) I would have enjoyed it more than I enjoyed girl guides.

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22 Dec 2007, 1:25 am

When this girl in my class in grade 2 said she was in cubs I wondered how she'd got in; I was jealous. I thought (and think) I would have enjoyed it more than I enjoyed girl guides.

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05 Jan 2008, 6:04 pm

Yea. I was in Guilds (Irish version) too.
All I wanted was to be in Scouts. What they were doing looked a LOT more interesting!

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05 Jan 2008, 9:05 pm

Ana54 wrote:

When this girl in my class in grade 2 said she was in cubs I wondered how she'd got in; I was jealous. I thought (and think) I would have enjoyed it more than I enjoyed girl guides.

Well I know boys can be in daisy scouts, and I think possibly in gs up to age 8, so maybe bs have something similar? Or maybe her mom just brought her to the meetings so she wouldn't have to pay a sitter

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05 Jan 2008, 10:20 pm

I didn't want to be either because I didn't care to be involved with people. I did go to brownies and girl scouts, but we did go camping, grow plants in egg cartons, put ferns in some type of acrylic and see Native American mounds. We also did some silly stuff like sewing, but I promptly sewed my finger to whatever it was and they forgot about that with me. I was very uncoordinated. The only thing I ever remember cooking was s'mores in a campfire. I think what you do depends on your leaders. Some things were okay that we did, but I would always have preferred to do them alone or maybe with one person. All I remember is the constant talking of those girls and wanting to get away from them.

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06 Jan 2008, 6:23 am

9CatMom wrote:

Yes. I never even got many badges because the parents had to push for them and my parents were really busy with raising 7 kids. I don't think it was fair because the kids who had relatives in the troop got more badges because it was easier for them to arrange for the tests. I also got bullied by some of the other girls, and lost interest in a year or so. Some years later, I joined the Venturers and found it was pretty cool.

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11 Jan 2008, 8:58 pm

Hi ticker! Long time no see your writing.

Sure I wanted to be a cub scout. All the brownies did was sit and chop arts and crafts.
I wanted woods and fire and flags.

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