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For one thing, you have to understand that the integration of Boy Scouts was, as much as any other reason, an indictment on the sorry state of the Girl Scouts of America. As much as woke is to blame, a lot of the pressure from parents to let girls join the boys also grew out of the simple fact that GSA was failing to organize and deliver an organization/experience that girls wanted to be a part of. They were working as unpaid labor for a glorified cookie company while they saw the Boy Scouts out there actually doing cool shit; sitting outside a grocery store soliciting from strangers while their male classmates built and raced pinewood derby cars. Girls wouldn't have felt resentment about not being able to become Eagle Scouts if the Girls Scouts actually made any effort to have the Gold Award mean a damn.
No one cares that Girl Scouts is girls-only because no one really cares about the Girl Scouts in general anymore beyond getting their annual box of Thin Mints.
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