What’s Up With the Girl Scouts?

Posted on April 26, 2007
Filed Under Family Rantings, Religious Rantings |

I’ve long been convinced that the upper echelons of the Girl Scouts has been infiltrated and taken over by radical feminists. clewis at Roman Catholic By Choice blog has a piece on this subject.

Background - I knew a leader who was taken aback when there were borderline femi-nazi messages on the Girl Scout Cookies boxes one year. In one of them, there was a little profile of a visit to a science lab of some sort by a group of girls, and a female scientist had hosted them on the visit. Stuck in the middle of the narrative was the line Dr. XX said it’s not true that girls can’t be good at science. On another box, the profile was of a group of girls who had gone mountain biking, and at the end of the narrative, it said, the best part was when we raced down a hill and left a group of boys in the dust.

At face value, nothing’s wrong with these statements, but think of the context. Rather than simply profile the events and frame them in the positive, there’s a need to introduce a gender battle into the middle of it, I would argue unnecessarily. The leader was so disturbed by these messages and the feminist agenda built into some of the materials she received from the organization that she wrote a letter to higher-ups. They responded essentially that they weren’t interested in having leaders who disagreed philosophically with the organization. As you can imagine, this leader was not a leader much longer.

Chris links to the audio of EWTN Barbara McGuigen’s recent program on why Catholic girls may not want to be part of this organization.