Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: jdravk@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Jeanette Dravk) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Power economics, genders, and the status quo Message-ID: <9101172247.AA22320@rutgers.edu> Date: 18 Jan 91 00:40:44 GMT References: <#}W^KZ&@rpi.edu> <9101072114.AA06178@rutgers.edu> <15415@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1920@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 38 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu In article <1920@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.EDU (Eric Pepke) writes: >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. Hmmm. This came up in some private mail as well as I believe I mentioned it in another post ... so, what exactly do these groups do to avoid any problems with the respective gender's newly forming sexual identities in a mixed group. That is to say, do they have any problems with co-eds and sexuality? It seems that there is a general understanding [as in, opinion, rather than knowledge] among the general US public that boys and girls can't exist platonically side by side -- althougth co-ed siblings do it all the time. But then again, they do have incest taboos so perhaps that's part of it. Why this should be so, I'm not sure, but I would like to know how these co-ed groups deal with that aspect, if at all. >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." Yuck! j- -- #*#*#*#*#*# Transient Creature of the Wide, Wild World #*#*#*#*#*#*#* "Time is not linear to me, it is a nebulous web of existential freedom."