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I have a friend who is very active in guiding in the UK (a "Brown Owl", I think?!) and my first instinct upon reading this was to copy the link and paste it on
by JDGM 13y ago
I have a friend who is very active in guiding in the UK (a "Brown Owl", I think?!) and my first instinct upon reading this was to copy the link and paste it on her Facebook wall with a positive, encouraging comment about how cool it is.
I got as far as pasting the link and FB detecting what it was before I noticed the original title: "In move to pwn boys, Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge". I didn't even clock that the first time, I just went straight from the IMO perfect title here "Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge" to the body of the article.
I'm now in limbo before posting the link, having replaced the link title with the one here (I really like how FB lets you do that), and considering my positive comment a bit more carefully. It's a niggle, and I anticipate accusations of "reading too much into it", but that title gets under my skin and I think it's because it's misrepresentative - as though the only reason for doing this is to keep up with the lads and "show them what for!". Rubs me right up the wrong way.
[Edit: reading the other comments in here I almost want to delete this because it's a negative nitpick on the presentation of the article rather than, as others are doing, a right on "whoop whoop" about this very cool news, but I had to get it off my chest.]
- GuiA 13y agoYeah, usually Ars Technica has pretty good taste when it comes to those things, but I share your sentiment on this one.
- unreal37 13y agoThey really wanted to use the gamer term "pwn" and thats the best they could come up with...
- arctangent 13y agoIt does seem a little crass. But perhaps it's not such a bad thing to stimulate a little bit of competition between the genders when there's a mismatch in the level of participation in a given field.
- saraid216 13y agoCompetition usually invites antagonistic response. That's not really what I want to see.
- saidajigumi 13y agoYeah, my reason for trimming the title on this submission basically precisely mirrors your reaction. I wanted to "whoop whoop" and share that with others, but really just grimaced at the original title.
- sosuke 13y agohttp://www.girlgamer.com/zine/article/2677/ http://www.girlgamer.com/zine/article/2677/
- JDGM 13y agoToo late for my wall post, but so obvious now you post it!
- onemorepassword 13y agoI think you may also want to see this in the context of the US, where the Boy Scouts are an extremely bigoted organisation.
- rextex 13y ago"Extremely bigoted" is a pretty unfair way to paint the Boy Scouts of America.
- brudgers 13y agoAgreed, it's just women, gays, and atheists who are discriminated against by the policies of the Boy Scouts of America. So "bigoted" is probably more fair.
- onemorepassword 13y agoI get the sarcasm, but I have to say it genuinely does piss me off if people consider hatred against gays or atheists to somehow be less offensive than racism or antisemitism. The only real difference is the historical body count.
- twoodfin 13y agoDon't you worry about devaluing the term "hatred" by throwing it around so lightly?
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoI don't know where you are, but my Troop has all of those. The national organization is pretty heavily Mormon, so that's an obstacle. But our Council just removed the rule against gay Scout. And hey, the Girl Scouts are bigoted against boys, right? That's pretty disingenious; they are purpose-selective in accordance with massive issues with prepubescent youth. Pretty hard to mentor boys when they're constantly showing off to girls - try to change that!
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