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

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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.

Then I saw a grown woman on an old Nickolodean tv show that would wear Cub Scout clothing. Isn't that the ultimate sign of resisting society by wearing a uniform women aren't suppose to be allowed to wear?! Well as an adult I am obsessed a little with collecting Scout badges as you can buy them online. I still want a Cub Scout or Webolos uniform.

I wish there was such thing as Scouting for Adults in other words organized camping and outdoor activities where you get to wear a uniform. Has anyone else ever wanted this? Its not so simple as -so you're an adult now so just go camping with your friends as I have no friends who want to do that sort of activity. Maybe because its a guy thing?? I have many female acquaintances but they want to do little more than the occassional card game or going to movies with me.

I was in the Brownies and Guides (UK girl version of Scouts), we got to do some cool stuff but I would have prefered scouts because I get on better with boys and the leaders in the Guides hated me and made it so horrible I eventually left. I got loads of badges though down both sleeves of my little brown dress!

I think it is possible to volunteer to be a leader in the scouts and then you get a uniform and get to do the camping etc. Now in UK it more mixed and not allowed to segregate girls so they can join the scouts, also most scout leaders are women that I know of.

In the US a lot of the Cub scout leaders are women, or more specifically moms. People who do not have a son in scouts are usually not accepted as a Leader. The female leaders have very dumb looking blouses they have to wear instead of having the same shirts as the scouts. As far as I know girls in the US cannot join Boy Scouts of America they must be Girl Scouts and wear the dumb brown or green outfits. The only good thing is they no longer have manditory dresses for Brownie Scouts and the girls actually do go camping some these days.

I was a girl scout....and the kinda big butchy den mother of the boy scouts across the hall always wore the male uniform....more-or-less

I am not even gonna go into what it was like being a girl scout..i don't think I ever envied the boy scouts...except their den mother was alot cooler and easy going than the leader of my troop. She helped out with the girl scouts occasionally...she always interviewed us for our merit badges.

We actually went camping alot.

Never joined because of the dresses.

I did envy the boy scouts though...I liked building things, and mostly I remember really wanting a penknife.

I had a pen knife anyway...and a canteen...and a mess kit (that I got made fun of for for some reason)

i was so bad..I was reviled by the rest of the troop because I was such a nerd. I was the only girl in the entire troop who wore my ENTIRE uniform to every meeting. I also won a perfect attendance award for never missing a single meeting. When we went camping, we always used the buddy system, and i never had a "buddy" who didn't try to ditch me...even the one other girl in my troop who I was friends with.

My favorite thing was to invent new badges...I collected vintage uniforms and girl scout manuals..so I made up a "scouting lore" (or something like that )badge..

lame lame lame...

I was a girl guide but the only bit I ever liked was going out into the woods and making a shelter out of branches and stuff. Oh and campfires.

I would have been the same way if I had joined. My mom kept me isolated from other kids and didn't let me join stuff. I would never have joined though because of the dress. I would definitely have tried to earn every badge and own a mess kit and penknife. lol

I was in Girl Scouts, but it didn't seem nearly as cool as Boy Scouts. My Grandpa is really into Boy Scouting and all of my boy cousins have been to at least one world or national jamboree with him. My Girl Scout troop broke up and reformed again over some ADD girl the leader didn't want in it. I thought that was totally unfair, so I never became a Cadet. My sister joined a Venture Scout troop, that's Boy Scouts for teenagers, boy or girl, but I was too old by a year. All my cousins are Eagle Scouts and I feel so bad not being like them. My Grandpa had a blanket made for him for christmas and it had patches from all the families, but ours were Girl Scout patches since I only have a sister. I always feel bad for my dad not having any boys, especially because of the scouting. My Grandpa thinks that the world would end as we know it if girls were allowed to join the Cub Scouts in the US. Apparently the major supporter here, the LDS church, would have to have a major overhaul of their young men's program, which revolves around Scouting.

Yes, the boy scouts got to camping, fishing, build all kinds of cool things. A girl scout project was making a box out of popsicle sticks and a field trip was going to a swimming pool.

My uncle took me fishing a few times when he found out that I really wanted to go, but being is he lived 6 states away thats about all he ever could do with me.

here in canada girls were alloud in the cubs and scouts
wasnt uncommon
had a little romance (if you could call it that)
in BC at a jamborrie (she was cute)

I wanted to be a cub scout but someone in my family was trying to make me do the girl scouts but I did not want to go door to door selling cookies.

I did Girl Scouts, and we did some camping from what I remember, but it was mostly in cabins with the only time we really camped in tents was when we were working on the camping badge as a troop. I was in it until the end of Juniors, as most people in my area tended to quit instead of becoming Cadets or Seniors. My brother did Cub Scouts but didn't like it enough to continue so he quit when he was in Weblos.

The thing my brother enjoyed even more was the YMCA's "Indian" Guides, which often included the family, not just the boys and their dads. I did get to go on the family camping trips to a lake where I even got the opprotunity to go fishing and do other cool things like rafting down the Colorado River near Lake Havasu. One of the dads worked at the Naval Shipyard when it was still open, so we got to tour the USS Missouri.

Yes, and I also envied all the great comfy-looking clothes boys got to wear while girls were expected to wear all this uncomfortable crap in the name of fashion.

Please concider that the boy scout uniforms are all scratchy and polyestery..(same as modern girl scout uniforms...at least for the 80's, when I was a GS..)...Long after I was in girl scouts, I tried to wear boy scout shorts, only to find that a. they were ucky polyester and b. they are not made for people who have hips.

I did own some old vintage girl scout uniforms that were all cotton and very comfy for the brief period that I could fit into them.

I'ma Gen X'er and I remember in high school (the 80's) it was an in" thing for girls to wear boy scout and eagle scout stuff, espeically the shirts with all the patches. I think most girls just wore their brothers' old uniforms.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a boy scout like my brother very badly. I would wear his old cub scout hat all the time and people would mistake me for a boy everywhere. My brother got to go on all these cool camping and hiking trips, and tons of other cool stuff My parents got me into brownies and girl scouts, but I hated that. It was all cooking, visiting the eldery and selling those damn cookies. No camping, building, learning cool stuff, going on hikes. Sometime we went to a museum, but that was the only cool stuff my girl scout troop did.