Brings back fond memories of my childhood and Boy Scouts.
At Boy Scout Camp we were brought into the tribe of Mic-O-Say.
One of the indoctrination ceremonies involved being taken out in the middle of the night with only a sleeping bag,flashlight, some matches, and a few pieces of newspaper.
We were marched way out into the woods, and every so often they would stop and send a pair of us (bloodbrother pairs) off the trail and into the deep woods. We were told that we must go far enough ‘into’ the hills so that our fire could not be seen (we were to build a ceremonial fire with the paper,matches, and kindling we could find).
That’s it. Off into the deep dark woods, having no idea where we were to begin with (none of us had ever been on that trail) and no idea were we were going. Just had to go Really, really far.
Doesn’t sound too bad, does it ? So, fire built, ceremony done, we go to sleep.
Now, the trick is that the next morning, no one comes to pick you up, guide you back to your camp. You both have to FIND your way back. No compass, No idea just where you are at all.
I don’t imagine they allow this anymore. And that’s a shame.
Today’s children grow up without building much character.
THE BSA has been vaginized to an appalling degree.
I push back on them, as the scout leaders when I was a scout in the early 1970’s were mostly World War 2 and Korean War vets and had a totally different mindset.The scouts were to creat Men, Soldiers and Citizens(in that order).
But this comes from BSA National too. It won’t change unless there are more people like me who push back, who attend the committee meetings attend the roundtables and shut these women down and tell them they are creating pussies, not men.