Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the rest

enchantedsleeper · Joined: 16 Jun 2013 Posts: 276 Location: United Kingdom

I remember being jealous that my brother got a penknife when he joined the Cubs and I couldn't have one.

Here we mostly have Rainbows, Brownies, Guides for girls and Cubs, Scouts, Rangers for boys. It's not just the UK that does that, right?

...Or wait, was it Beavers, Cubs, Scouts? And then Rangers was mixed-sex?

I knew a girl from primary school who joined the Cubs, so it wasn't gender segregated all the way, but it would depend on your local group. I definitely didn't know any boy Brownie Guides. Funny how it can occasionally be acceptable for girls to do a boy thing but never for boys to do a girl thing.

Felgraf · Joined: 10 Jul 2012 Posts: 734

I'm so glad the girlscout camp I volunteer at offers:

Stitching/sewing
Arts and Crafts
Archery (even if the original setup of the range on site WAS TERRIFYING and was crafted by someone with no concept of archery safety or "There are things PAST THE TARGETS IF THEY MISS". Our director nearly had an aneurism when she saw it. It's fixed now!)
Fencing
Wilderness survival
Animal teaching
SCIENCE!! (my department),
etc.
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eureka00 · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2027 Location: Pretzel City

My brother was in scouts and indian guides. He and my Dad both say that Indian Guides was way more fun, but that at a certain age you are kinda done with Indian Guides. He did Scouting for quite awhile. I think he was pretty far along in the progression when he stopped. There is an Indian Princesses group in town now, but when I was younger we didn't have the girl one. But anyways, I wasn't in Girl Scouts either. However, I went camping enough as a young girl with my family that I figure I know enough anyways.
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stripeypants · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:25 am Post subject:

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

transhumanism is my only hope and dream for the future

everything else is just meaningless distractions
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stripeypants · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:56 pm Post subject:

Someone has created a playgroup for gender creative kids, because she couldn't find any such resources for her own child.

http://raisingmyrainbow.com/2014/02/27/introducing-rainbows-at-play/

I'm so happy this exists!
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Ennis · Joined: 09 Jun 2013 Posts: 987 Location: Australia

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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 12531 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Well, stuff has been happening.

Mozilla Corporation promoted Brendan Eich to the job of CEO. Eich has solid technical chops, having created the Javascript language that basically is the web nowadays.

But it came to light about a year ago that he donated a substantial amount of money to California's Prop 8 campaign back in 2008.

Upon the news of his promotion, at least one app developer announced a boycott of Mozilla. Shortly thereafter, Eich issued a statement which basically didn't apologize for or mention anything about his support for Prop 8. But it did emphasize that Mozilla's own very good internal policies about sexual orientation and diversity will continue to be upheld and that they're even engaging in a new outreach program specifically targeting non-privileged populations. Still, now Mozilla's own employees are speaking out and calling for Eich to step down.

This story's far from over yet.

Darqcyde · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:10 pm Post subject:

Apparently too many people fail to understand what the concept of "vetting" truly entails.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:30 am Post subject:

Cross-posting this for relevance: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/24/tenn-senate-passes-religious-antidiscrimination-bill/6844351/

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/1-tennessee-passes-bill-allowing-lgbt-students-to-be-bullied-in-the-name-of-religious-freedom/news/2014/03/25/84801