What can be used as credible political excuse to refuse to buy Girl Scout Cookies

I heard Girl Scouts are more socially progressive than their Boy Scout brethren but is there anything that they do policy-wise that could be used as leverage? Funding death squads in Angola? Human trafficking in Boise, Idaho?

allergic to wheat?

how about you don't want to get fat

They're not really that good anymore.

hate girls, scouts

"you girl scouts don't make cookies like your predecessors. get back to the kitchen, ladies"

already at an entire box of those fucking peanut butter ones five minutes ago

"Ask your parents about the economy, they'll know why I said no."

I don't like the peanut butter ones anymore -- used to be my 2nd fave after Thin Mints. Those little powdered lemon things are addictive, tho.

So are they hatin on the gays, or is that just the boyz scoutz?

they're friends with lots of gay men, but feel uncomfortable around lesbians

The GSA are pretty cool. Just buy the fucking cookies.

What is their stance on the death penalty? Their vicious infighting over cookie sales territory suggests they might have some vindictive leadership in power...

man up and buy the cookies, they are v. enjoyable.

cookie sales have ended in my area. I am sad. I didn't get a chance to buy any this year.

cookies already bought, dudes. just wonderin if there's any reasons they shouldn't have been bought. does sarah palin hold executive office in girl scout leadership?

sarah palin makes all the girl scout cookies in wassila

i mean she has a bakery there where she makes all the girl scout cookies every year--that's why mccain picked her

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_scouts_of_america#Controversies

these controversies are pretty weak imo--if anything a couple of them may want to make you buy more cookies.

I can easily see girl scout cookies deciding the 2012 election. Not even evangelicals have a more coercive and tenacious network.

man, imagine if Girl Scout cookies had birth control pills in them

my testicles would be ovaries

!!!

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_scouts_of_america#Controversies

these controversies are pretty weak imo--if anything a couple of them may want to make you buy more cookies."

yeah, how did this schism between girls scouts and boy scouts come about? I am picturing Martina Navratilova nailing cookies to a door.

"would be"

Their board chair is an Executive VP with Northern Trust, a company which improperly spent 2009 bailout loan money on Sheryl Crow concerts.

You can have sympathy in your heart for little prepubescent Abbott, who was regularly hurt (arm twists, pulled hair, nails in skin) by her fellow Brownies. They were bitches and perhaps modern Girl Scouts also act this way & thus deserve none of your attention. Also whatever girl sells the most cookies basically has free reign to act like the Duchess of Bitchitude, so you are saving a little girl from the horrible fate of ultimate smugness by reducing her cookie sales.

Also earwigs crawl on them.

I am picturing Martina Navratilova nailing cookies to a door.

lol i like this image a lot

"You can have sympathy in your heart for little prepubescent Abbott, who was regularly hurt (arm twists, pulled hair, nails in skin) by her fellow Brownies. They were bitches and perhaps modern Girl Scouts also act this way & thus deserve none of your attention. Also whatever girl sells the most cookies basically has free reign to act like the Duchess of Bitchitude, so you are saving a little girl from the horrible fate of ultimate smugness by reducing her cookie sales."

WINNER.
Unless someone can confirm they also hate black people.

you never need to confirm that, just say it over and over until people start believing it

Girl Scouts of America have bad case of the NIMBY on black people. What? GSA, they hate black people.

No, this shitty libel isn't worth it.

I bought two boxes the other day and did not regret it one bit.

Why do you hate black people?

When black people start making thin mints I will start buying them.

We used to sneak bottles of alcohol to girl scout camp, so you could be enabling tween drinking binges.

When black people start making thin mints I will start buying them.

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yet another case of the unclear referrent bringing trouble

haha

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I get this impression of the girl scouts being this backstabbing den of thwarted maternal ambitions while boy scouts are just laid back kids going camping, possibly sneaking joints, which is totally at odds with how much more progressive the girl scouts are.

who from all yall were in the scouts, yall? dish, please.

All I remember is camping, crafts and drinking. Good times.

Oh, and I got thrown in a lake once because I wouldn't shut up. The Girl Scout version of suggest ban.

too many cooties

I got thrown in a lake once because I wouldn't shut up.

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I joined GSA bcz my brother, in Boy Scouts (well, Cub Scouts), got to do all this cool-ass shit like skiing, SCUBA diving, pinecar derbies, laetherwork, etc. Depressed by my inability to join, I begged my mom to let me join the Girl Scouts. We did things like make macrame plant holders (in the early '90s), glue things to other things to make magnets, make posters about how drugs are bad, learn how to sew buttons; just the most retarded, gender-biased shit of all time. H8ing u GSA experience.

I was in the Boy Scouts for a while. I infuriated my Scoutmasters because I was there solely because I liked going camping; basically, I did enough work to get to a high enough rank where I could credibly be a patrol leader and then spent the rest of the time goofing off and having fun. When they tried to hang the "but this will help you get into a good school!" carrot in front of me, I responded with "have you seen my grades/test scores? PS I'm a black kid from the country attending school in a small white suburb; this is like admissions bingo for me".

I still remember the look on the face of the Scoutmaster who told me that one day I would regret not making Eagle Scout when I told him I was going to Harvard.

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I still remember the look on the face of the Scoutmaster who told me that one day I would regret not making Eagle Scout when I told him I was going to Harvard.

that's not snotty, that's awesome

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I was on a sugar high. Lots of bad impression of television characters.

I want to see this tableau, Dan.

no scouts for me, i was a non-joiner only kid who was mostly terrified of my peers

I learned to be a non-joiner after several years of joining.

Wait, no, I still join. Just very selectively.

i have been to boy scout meetings with internet personality HI DERE, but i was never a boy scout

And it made you the man you are.

i haven't had a cookie connect for years, no one at work has kids old enough to be in the girl scouts.

Say you are a Camp Fire Girl and cannot divide your loyalties.

I was a brownie, and I mostly remember reading the GS manual in a church basement, then being in a Christmas parade. My mom made me quit when the pack leader or whatever called her last minute and asked her to bake a bunch of cookies for a meeting, and then called her again after Mom had already made the cookies and told her they didn't need her cookies after all. I wasn't even in long enough to get a uniform and I had to wear a brown turtleneck in the parade, a shame I still carry to this day. Yet I like Thin Mints a lot. The End.

I was also hoodwinked into the Girl Scouts by imagining that it would be like the Boy Scouts, in this case my dad's stories of Cub Scout meetings from 1965 which were like 40% pinebox racers 30% sand dune camping and the rest chasing each other around the meeting hall with pieces of lumber. I think we made like three puff-painted handsewn pillows each year and generally the experience was for me to poop on. I could really mess with some refrigerated Tagalongs right now though

is 'they're really expensive' a political excuse?

The gendered craft BS was my Brownie experience, too. I never made it to proper GS, it was just too much nancy bullshit before I got that far. We never went camping ONCE or learned to tie knots or start fires, all we did was sew "storytime" cushions out of layers of newspaper between wallpaper remnants that we whipstitched around the edges with yarn. I'm not even sure we were allowed to use the hole punch ourselves. k^2-lame.

I want to have a meeting now where we bitch about the false promises of Girl Scouts while eating the cookies.

Woman Scouts

brownies was boring until the day our brown owl went mad and pretended she'd been attacked in her home (the little girls whispered, 'they flushed all her jillery down the toilet!'), and later that night a bossy muscular brownie with lots of badges and a history of being untruthful and not being challenged for it "saw" the attackers lurking in the sand dunes and ended up on the tv news as a star witness, but then it turned out all she had seen was a figment of someone else's imagination, after which the enthralled emboldened brownies queried her claim that her vinyl schoolbag was made of genuine crocodile skin.

I was in Brownies for two years and it was boring. I joined because my best friends were in it. Switching schools was a good reason to quit.

I was a Girl Scout all the way until high school. My brownie troup was a large, loud, fun pack of girls who would meet every Tuesday afternoon at Kirsten's house for meetings. Went camping, horseback riding, sang a lot of goofy songs. My militant lesbian friend just got a job with GSA. If she can't find something political wrong with them, no one can.

We also saved the whales one memorable year.

oh that was you

I did five years before we finally went camping and it was so miserable that a third of the troop got out of the game after that weekend. Looking back I have no idea how I stuck it out that long, my best school friends were in my troop but we all hated it and basically my only fond memories are of stuffing the suggestion box in the interfaith event space where our meetings were held with "start serving beer" week after week

Just say "get a real job!" and slam the door in her face.

On a related note, I was kicked out of the cub scouts because at age 9 I refused to "visit my local church or synagogue" in order to progress from Wolf to Bear or whatever.

Was in the Brownies for a year, enticed by ideas of camping, but the leader said our pack couldn't go camping. We made woollen pom-poms which we never finished, played boring indoor games, and sang songs about how great God and the Queen are (oh Britisherpaws).

Once we had a joint meeting with the Cub Scouts, who had a hut in the woods and got to go outside and have campfires and sing Yellow Submarine, which seemed a bit better. But it only happened once, maybe because the Cubs complained that girls smell and don't know the words to Yellow Submarine.

Mind you I hate camping anyway (most horrible experience of teenagedom = packed off to a youth hostel with a Christian youth group aged 13), so probably just as well really.

did anyone say misogyny?

"My daughters are both Girl Scouts. Also, the economy"

My parents wouldn't let me in the Scouts, i had to go Woodcraft Folk damn hippies.

estela what is a jillery

credit crunch

global warming

political correctness gone mad

health and safety directives

immigrants

the war on terror

the war on want

I was in the Boy Scouts for a while. I infuriated my Scoutmasters because I was there solely because I liked going camping; basically, I did enough work to get to a high enough rank where I could credibly be a patrol leader and then spent the rest of the time goofing off and having fun.

Same here. Only they basically made me accept the role of patrol leader. I had no interest whatsoever in responsibility. Can't somebody else bring the goddamn hamburger helper?

estela what is a jillery

that's an approximation of how small girls in nz used to/maybe still do pronounce jewellery.

Wow, this question gives me bad flashbacks to the 2004 election.

It's prob not a very cool thing to do, but as a transgendered person, I would like to confess that back before I transitioned to a man, that is, when I had something called a "girlhood", I had a very similar girl scout experience to what has been recounted by so many on this thread. Basically that it was dreadfully boring. I was part of a small troop of girls and what I rememember is that our troop leader was very boring and only thought of boring things for us to do, while next door, just across the hallway in the school, was a much bigger troop of girl scouts who always seemed to be doing something fun. I would look through the small windows into the doors at them and seethe with jealousy! Makes me laugh, now.

I was a Girl Scout through high school and then led a much younger troop in college. As soon as I got old enough to start having a say in what we did, I pushed for as little crafty stuff as possible and more camping and outdoors time. I was also really lazy about selling cookies while I was a Girl Scout and hated when people got competitive, so I tried to make sure my troop didn't feel pressured about it.

Basically, I think Girl Scouts should be about having fun with your friends and exploring things you're interested in without the pressure to get really good at particular activities - all the organized stuff kids do is more focused on building up accomplishments, especially sports and music, and since Girl Scouts doesn't offer that, it has to offer something different and fun in its own way. This ideal was pretty hard to realize when my troop transitioned out of elementary school because then their extracurriculars got more serious AND they started being cliquish, though, and I wasn't actually great at providing leadership by telling them to shut up and be nice effectively. But then they got a leader who was a high school teacher, so that changed things a lot.

(Basically it's not news that elementary school kids are fun but need more guidance, and high schoolers are independent and interesting, but middle school kids are a crazy mess somewhere in the middle.)

I think a lot depends on having a fun/interesting troop leader. And having scouts that don't go on about factory records all day.

Do you guys suppose the scouts went middle-of-the-road progressive as a DIRECT RESULT of selling cookies? i.e. wanting to avoid the sort of ugliness when suzy tries to push the thin mints onto a feminist neighbor or some such.

maybe boy scouts selling boy scout jerky or something would have a similar moderating effect.