Sexual objectification?
Let me tell you what I learned in GS. How to survive if you’re caught outside in a tornado. How to make a tourniquet. How to stand up to bullying. How to successfully talk your way into having someone buy cookies from you. How to love yourself and treat others around you. Nothing at all with sexual objectification. You are wrong.
^ THIS! Would anti-choicers kindly come up with something that isn’t a smear campaign, an outright lie, or some combination of the two?
this is hilarious considering the fact that the ‘pro-life’ movement is all about the dehumanization of women
GSUSA is a wonderful organization and I stand behind them whole-heartedly. They had a HUGE hand in bringing me up to be the feminist I am today.
Girl Scouts is all about teaching girls that it’s okay to be a girl (if that’s what you want to be). It’s about teaching girls to be responsible citizens, to take care of themselves and others, to set goals and achieve them.
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Taken from the Honest Girl Scouts campaign. For a campaign trying to get people /not/ to buy cookies and /not/ support the GSUSA, this is doing an awful lot to suddenly make me want /to/ support the GSUSA. (and I’m saying this a a former Girl Scout of about 6 years who hasn’t bought cookies in years because they’re too expensive).
I see so much acceptance here, and especially in a time in children’s lives where acceptance is so important, taking that away from them is just cruel.
I was a Girl Scout for ten years. Even though that was a decade ago, and I totally originally joined for the cookies and awesome uniforms, I had so much fun in the troop, learned so many things (that are pertinent to men and women, by the way, like how to repair a broken toilet), and it left a big impression on me. We were, at least on the surface, an all-Jewish troop, and while we did do Jewish things like attend the Hanukkah festival and whatnot, we never turned anybody away. I’d like to think that if a transgender girl had wanted to join our troop, we would’ve welcomed her with open arms, though the issue never arose.
And now I see things like this, and it just makes me even happier and more proud to have been a part of the Girl Scouts for as long as I was.
As a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts (yes, really), I could not be more proud to call myself a part of this organization. Please buy cookies. Donate to GSUSA or directly to your local council. This organization is important for all girls - including LGBT girls - and we need to continue to support it. Anyone who has ever been to a GS summer sleepaway camp even once has veryyyyy likely had a lesbian as a counselor. Like, I’m not even joking. Our camp counselors are pretty much the gayest segment of the organization. It’s awesome. Continued support for GSUSA means continued support for all girls and all women to grow and flourish. Also, the cookies are damn delicious. So keep on buying them. :)
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