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#21  Postby Onyx8 » Apr 26, 2012 11:46 pm

The difficult part is sewing the badge on...
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#22  Postby Acetone » Apr 27, 2012 12:09 am

Shrunk wrote:
Onyx8 wrote:I got a fucking merit badge once or twice...


They give merit badges for that? If I'd known, I might have joined up.

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#23  Postby james1v » Apr 27, 2012 12:59 am

The misogynistic men are afraid of her, she may install a thinking of "you dont need to rely on that loser". The women married to the misogynistic losers, will hate her for holding up the mirror. :think:
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#24  Postby orpheus » Apr 28, 2012 7:16 pm

Shrunk wrote:
Onyx8 wrote:I got a fucking merit badge once or twice...


They give merit badges for that? If I'd known, I might have joined up.


Well, as they say, they don't teach sex. (But you can earn a merit badge if you're really good at it.)
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#25  Postby Shrunk » Apr 28, 2012 7:19 pm

Anyway, if that's the reason she was booted out, I wonder how they justify having heterosexual den leaders? They have sex, too, I understand.
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#26  Postby orpheus » Apr 28, 2012 7:23 pm

Shrunk wrote:Anyway, if that's the reason she was booted out, I wonder how they justify having heterosexual den leaders? They have sex, too, I understand.


:this: Excellent point. A legal team and/or the press should shove that in the BSA's collective face.
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#27  Postby Shrunk » Apr 28, 2012 7:27 pm

In any event, I'm not really sure what the duties of a den leader are, but I assume there is some degree of responsibility for looking after the kids. If that is the case, knowing nothing else about the person, who would you feel safer entrusting your male child with:

A homosexual woman.

A heterosexual woman.

A male boy scout leader.

I know who finishes third in my book.
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#28  Postby HughMcB » May 01, 2012 2:11 pm

I'll pick Lesbian Scout Leader for 1000.
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#29  Postby Emmeline » May 01, 2012 3:35 pm

Onyx8 wrote:The difficult part is sewing the badge on...

Should have asked a Brownie - they have sewing badges ;)
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#30  Postby I'm With Stupid » May 01, 2012 3:45 pm

They let women in scouts nowadays?
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#31  Postby Mike_L » May 01, 2012 7:04 pm

I'm With Stupid wrote:They let women in scouts nowadays?

Yes, they even have chocolate brownies! Fucking liberals allowing racial mixing and all that...
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#32  Postby Weaver » May 01, 2012 7:59 pm

Shrunk wrote:In any event, I'm not really sure what the duties of a den leader are, but I assume there is some degree of responsibility for looking after the kids. If that is the case, knowing nothing else about the person, who would you feel safer entrusting your male child with:

A homosexual woman.

A heterosexual woman.

A male boy scout leader.

I know who finishes third in my book.

This just goes to show that the anti-gay forces succeeded in making the message not about a few pedophiles, but about gay men as scout leaders.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that women should be trusted over men as caregivers.
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#33  Postby Shrunk » May 01, 2012 9:36 pm

Weaver wrote:
Shrunk wrote:In any event, I'm not really sure what the duties of a den leader are, but I assume there is some degree of responsibility for looking after the kids. If that is the case, knowing nothing else about the person, who would you feel safer entrusting your male child with:

A homosexual woman.

A heterosexual woman.

A male boy scout leader.

I know who finishes third in my book.

This just goes to show that the anti-gay forces succeeded in making the message not about a few pedophiles, but about gay men as scout leaders.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that women should be trusted over men as caregivers.


No, but they should be trusted over men who, it seems, have increased likelihood of being sexually predatory pedophiles (which is completely separate from homosexuality). You could subsitute "Catholic priest" for #3 to illustrate the same point.
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#34  Postby Weaver » May 01, 2012 9:59 pm

Is there real evidence to support this? Or is it just a reporting bias?

Look at the news reports whenever a female teacher is busted screwing with a male student - a large number of comments are always the "hur, hur, lucky kid" sort - leading me to think that male children simply don't report sexual advances from female caregivers as much as they do from males.
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#35  Postby Ultimate » May 01, 2012 10:10 pm

I don't really object to her being a lesbian, but by God! They allow women in the Boyscouts now? What's the world coming to?
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#36  Postby Weaver » May 01, 2012 10:24 pm

Women have been the primary leaders at Cub Scout level for as long as I've been alive.

Girls are allowed to be members, particularly with such groups as the Explorer Scouts - this also predates me.

Somehow, while the courts found it was necessary for the BSA to allow girls in, they did not find it necessary to lift the bigotry against gays or atheists.
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