Girl Guides/ Brownies turning into feminazi indoctrination clubs?
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http://new.girlguiding.org.uk/report
http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/campaigns1.aspx
When did this happen? I just read this latest campaign and it appears they have turned into some women's rights movement and not a very good one at that. It's a real shame that something that used to be about camaraderie, camp fires, survival skills, sports and games now appears to be an awful feminists rights movement.
I really won't be encouraging my daughter to join if this is what they have descended to?
http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/campaigns1.aspx
When did this happen? I just read this latest campaign and it appears they have turned into some women's rights movement and not a very good one at that. It's a real shame that something that used to be about camaraderie, camp fires, survival skills, sports and games now appears to be an awful feminists rights movement.
I really won't be encouraging my daughter to join if this is what they have descended to?
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why? Its sums up that certain type of militant feminism perfectly and at least separates from feminists and egalitarians who believe in true equality.
Well, like "racist", "homophobic" etc it is another one of those overused words. It seems to get applied to situations where it should not be applied.
Really? I was in the Brownies and Guides for 8 years and gave up when I realised that they really did expect me to do little more than learn to cook and knit. You are getting what was essentially an outdated, religion based, long term home economics course confused with Scouts. The boys got to do all the fun stuff.
Anything that empowers young women to demand equality is fine by me and I am surprised and pleased to see the guide movement come out with something sensible.
Girl Tinkers and her friends have not been exposed to any radical feminism and I doubt very much they will hear anything about the Stop Page 3 campaign in between making unidentifiable clay things and playing Duck Duck Goose.
I wouldn't let that put you off sending your daughter. If I was to be put off by anything it would be the hoo ha about making their Promise more open to non-Christians. But that wasn't the Bownies, that was the minister whose church hall was used who stamped his feet over that one.
When I was a brownie - only a year, I got thrown out, I think - the women who ran them were a hell of a lot scarier than most around nowadays.
I wish this forum would allow me to give "Karma". So true it hurts.:D
Maybe the OP got laughed at for having a small penis
Did I miss something in the links? What's wrong with promoting self esteem, and wanting your voice to be heard?
Perhaps you could argue that the Brownies/ Guides shouldn't be used as an introduction to politics, I would see your point, and disagree.
First BIB, the Cubs/Scouts not Brownies/Guides. Great informed start. Second BIB Ascended to and so they should. What do you want for your daughter? Baking scones and lessons in how to tie herself to the kitchen sink? There is absolutely nothing outrageous in the links but then, you are a man. Are you threatened by female equality if you have to attach sexist and stupid terms like "femanazi" to such simple issues Or is this a wind up?
are you a feminazi truth? ;-)I think the way this word annoys people speaks volumes about the people who object to it, like the typical lefty do gooders who frequent these boards.:p
Are you doing the bingo card of words that are meaningless insults?
It speaks volumes about the man who invented it and how he resents women having any rights, I would say. Pathetic.:D
I'm doing well. Someone just needs to say "sheeple" now and I'll win a bottle of Blue Nun.
I went to girl guides once. I can vaguely remember some sort of homemade sweets and some prayers. This new version sounds much more interesting.
There was one a while ago: Brownie Grrls.
Now you've said that one of the sheeple around here will definitely say it. ;-)
Sorry, you sound like the kind of Dad whose daughter would need this kind of input.
Which point did the girls raise that got you objecting?
Sexual harrassment at school is ok by you? You'd tell her to take it as a compliment?
FGM is not an appalling type of cruelty? It's just part of being a girl?
Girls should be not listened to the way they weren't at Rochdale?
The Girl Guide movement has always tried to encourage strong independent girls. It's more needed now than ever it was.
Considering the number of contributions the OP made to similar threads, I think he wants to be female. He seems to be so invested in women's issues and rights.
the Brownies/ guides has always been the female equivalent of the cub scouts. That was the reason it was set up. Those links just sound like they could have been written by Harriet Harman to me and go too far the other way. I made an error when i said women's rights movement i should have said women's superiority movement.