Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ora!daemon From: bloch@thor.UCSD.EDU (Steve Bloch) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Power economics, genders, and the status quo Message-ID: <15415@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 14 Jan 91 20:26:40 GMT References: <#}W^KZ&@rpi.edu> <9101072114.AA06178@rutgers.edu> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: O'Reilly and Associates Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 28 Approved: ambar@ora.com jdravk@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Jeanette Dravk) writes: >Ya know, there *are* all-male groups that already exist purely on a >social basis .. one that comes to mind off-hand is the Boy Scouts of >America... I don't think the Boy Scouts is male-only any more. In fact, I THINK I saw a female friend of mine wearing a Boy Scout uniform as long ago as 1980 -- not sure, it might have been Explorer -- but I'm pretty sure I heard a report on NPR in the last three months on the Boy Scouts's acceptance of girls. >I always >hated how the Boy Scouts always got to go on hikes and learn neat >skilled crafts while all we ever did were make yarn doilies and sleep >in cabins while our troop matrons cooked us dinner.... Odd, when I picked up a Girl Scout manual (at a garage sale for $.25; I was about seven) I thought all the stuff it said they got to do looked pretty nifty. Nobody in the Boy Scouts ever taught me how to sew; my mother just said that if I wanted to wear patches and merit badges I'd have to put them on myself. And they never teach you to cook anything that hasn't been in a backpack for at least four hours. -- "I'm nobody's savior, and nobody's mine either..." -- Ferron Steve Bloch bloch@cs.ucsd.edu