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Girling the Boy Scouts
City Journal ^
| 07/01/2024
| Heather MacDonald
Posted on 07/29/2024 11:02:58 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
Heather MacDonald documents the self-immolation of the Boy Scouts of America and the denigration of men and masculinity in America.
TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: scouts
The value of an all-boys organization was self-evident to the Boy Scouts’ founders and to the Scout leaders who followed them. Masculine comradeship underlies males’ willingness to undertake military and civic sacrifice. Boys compete with one another, torment one another, but also sometimes elevate one another. They seek adult males to emulate—ideally their fathers but, in the absence of their own father, a father figure embodying masculine virtue. That father figure can even be imaginary; boys’ aspirations are fired by tales of male courage and the accomplishment of great feats.
To: TexasKamaAina
Boy Scouts as originally founded and through at least the 60s was an excellent organization. It was always probably a magnet for homosexual pedophiles, but the overall mission and purpose was laudable. “For God and Country.” Doesn’t get any simpler than that.
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posted on
07/29/2024 11:18:26 AM PDT
by
hinckley buzzard
( Resist the narrative. ual, )
To: hinckley buzzard
And yet the girl scouts remain the girl scouts.
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posted on
07/29/2024 11:19:19 AM PDT
by
DPMD
(.)
To: hinckley buzzard
Let the BSA drive themselves out of existence. Other scouting organizations are picking up the slack.
To: DPMD
Has the BSA started selling cookies yet?
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posted on
07/29/2024 11:21:06 AM PDT
by
Tai_Chung
To: TexasKamaAina
Of all the imbecilic trends resulting from the Decadence of Western Civilization, Girling the Boy Scouts is one of the stupidest.
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posted on
07/29/2024 11:26:50 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America!--President Donald Trump, Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024)
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posted on
07/29/2024 11:30:07 AM PDT
by
bankwalker
(Repeal the 19th ...)
To: hinckley buzzard
My 2 sons were in Boy Scouts until they each hit 16.
Once they got a car they got a job.
Once they got a job they had money.
Once they had money they had girlfriends.
It's the American dream!
😉👍
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posted on
07/29/2024 11:57:39 AM PDT
by
airborne
(Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
To: DPMD
This all inspired by homo pedo’’s.
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:34:44 PM PDT
by
chopperk
(are)
To: TexasKamaAina
The Boy Scouts were "gayed" years ago for ideological reasons.
Being "girled" is a vain attempt to regain membership.
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posted on
07/29/2024 1:22:07 PM PDT
by
Salman
(It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
To: airborne
Good parenting on your part never let your boys grow up to be stepping stones.
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posted on
07/29/2024 1:30:33 PM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: TexasKamaAina
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posted on
07/29/2024 2:31:16 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(“Despair serves the regime.” —J.D. Vance)
To: TexasKamaAina
i thought Boy Scouts were killed and it’s Scouting America now...
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posted on
07/29/2024 3:18:56 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Chode
i thought Boy Scouts were killed and it’s Scouting America now... Weren't they renamed: The Wood Sprites?
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posted on
07/29/2024 3:27:25 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
07/29/2024 3:39:33 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: TexasKamaAina
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posted on
07/29/2024 4:30:37 PM PDT
by
ibheath
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