Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.EDU (Eric Pepke) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Power economics, genders, and the status quo Message-ID: <1920@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 15 Jan 91 23:21:41 GMT References: <#}W^KZ&@rpi.edu> <9101072114.AA06178@rutgers.edu> <15415@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Organization: Florida State University, but I don't speak for them Lines: 21 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu In article <15415@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bloch@thor.UCSD.EDU (Steve Bloch) writes: >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. No information on the Boy Scouts, but as far as I know the Explorers have always been co-ed. The Medical Explorer group to which I belonged in the mid seventies certainly was. The fact that we were co-ed and the rest of the scouts were not gave us a pleasantly smug feeling of superiority. There is (or was) a Georgia-based group called the Environmental Scouts. They were similar to the boy scouts with the exception of not restricting membership to boys and having a somewhat more focused approach to environmental responsibility. They were also small. The last thing I heard, the BSA was sending hordes of lawyers to chop them to bits for having the audacity to use the name "Scouts." -EMP