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"Men spaces have been mostly eliminated." An organization that was once called "Boy Scouts" is no longer catered only to young boys. And yet the Girl Scouts re
by txsoftwaredev 7y ago
"Men spaces have been mostly eliminated."
An organization that was once called "Boy Scouts" is no longer catered only to young boys. And yet the Girl Scouts remain female only.
- lonelappde 7y agoThe Boy Scouts still are mostly single gender dens. I hope you are merely misinformed and not intentionally deceiving people with misleading comments. https://www.scouting.org/about/membership-policy/ https://www.scouting.org/about/membership-policy/
- dang 7y agoThat second sentence breaks the HN guidelines badly. Would you please stop doing that and follow them instead? I don't want to have to ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dleslie 7y agoThat's mostly it being a victim of its own success; here in Canada, Scouts long held a better reputation than Guides. Something fundamentally different about how the organizations and parental leadership approached the kids, I suspect.
- taneq 7y agoSame goes for virtually any space that used to be male-only. It's become socially unacceptable (and often illegal) to exclude females from anything, while it's still perfectly OK to exclude males.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoWhat’s an example of a male-excluding space you’ve seen that couldn’t have a female-excluding counterpart?
- jazzyk 7y ago1. Women-only workout areas in gyms - quite common, never seen one for men 2. All-female colleges (many), there is perhaps one or two all-male, if they even still exist
- kortilla 7y agoBoy Scouts
- trhway 7y agoJust google something like "women business network".
- monksy 7y agoAlso the "WIN" network.
- hindsightbias 7y agoScouts are not integrated. Troops are separated by sex. They are safe in their spaces.