Boy Scouts of America: Girls now admitted

While participation in the Boy Scouts of America has steadily declined over the past four decades, and courted controversy by excluding, and then allowing, gay scouts and troop leaders, scouting still has power, and perhaps more relevance than ever. To accommodate changes in the American family, the look of scouting has changed as well, with girls being admitted into Cub Scout dens for the first time. Tony Dokoupil finds out what the boys think about that, and also visits a Boy Scout Troop out of Salt Lake City, many of whose members are refugees from Southeast Asia.

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[bumblebee]

The Boys don't seem to happy about this. And I don't blame them.

[knowone]

Why are girls trying to join the Boy Scouts when they can just make Girl Scouts better lmao.

[theactingnerd]

Even the girls scouts think this is a stupid idea

[umopapisdnupsidedown]

This just angers me! Girls Scouts might as well accept boys...

[atombomb]

And the girlscout's will be letting in boys too?

[whiplash]

I am in Boy Scouts in Alabama. Part of the fun of it is hanging out with the boys and tooling on each other. With the addition of girls takes some of that fun away with stricter restrictions and a lot less leniency on the jokes you can make or all around fun you can have. I understand the importance of inclusion but there’s got be a better way. GIRL scouts is for GIRLS and BOY scouts are for BOYS.

[WesLikeWest-ocwr]

My Boy Scouts, ruined by feminism. God help us all. I have to deal with women nagging at me all day, just let us be boys for once.

[apeanut]

They made *"GIRL"* Scouts for a reason.

[xnet_cascade]

Doesn’t surprise me that they never actually considered how the actual Boy Scouts feel about this change

[schoidz]

Girls scout: LET BOYS JOIN BOYS SCOUT
Boys scout: ok
Also Girls scout: WE HAVE NO GIRLS JOINING OUR SCOUT WE'RE SUING YOU

No joke this is a thing

[terryyk]

So, Girl Scouts isn’t doing to well. You know what, let’s just try to get them into Boy Scouts instead of making our organization better.
WHAT?

[ManMadeMatt]

Nobody should be surprised by this. You knew it was coming.

[keithbeamon]

This world has lost it's damn mind!

[Alexisurdaddy]

What happened to Girl Scouts did they file for bankruptcy?

[CrashBones]

Society these days, Girls can join boys but boys can't join girls, That sickens me

[tsargtv]

So sad to see what boy scouts have became key BOY

[eloska]

I understand. I'm a girl and this is a terrible idea. I put myself in a boy's place and understand that I wouldn't wanna be around girls all the time! Although most of my friends were boy's and I get tired of girls, I will never go to the boy Troup because I know they need their boy time.

[samsquatch]

The worst part was looking at the arrows that they were shooting. When I was in "Boy Scouts" we shot real arrows that could have easily impaled us and it was awesome.

[MinutestoRouletteFortune]

This is what canceling everything masculine looks like.

[tio]

This is Boy Scouts





NOT SEXUAL EQUALITY SCOUTS!