The Boy Scouts had a nice run - now it's over

The Boy Scouts are no more.  Actually, that organization has been committing a slow motion seppuku for years.  My opinion is that this entire episode is due to the organization seeing its membership sliding.  Instead of identifying the real problem with membership – iphone, x-box, helicopter parents, – the Boy Scouts of America board of directors thought that they just were not progressive enough to attract a gen X, Y, Z. 

So instead of addressing the real problem and riding out a membership slump, they have decided to cater to the Lefty Lib agitators.  First, they offered up a nonsensical position on homosexuals wherein gay Scouts could be tolerated but not gay Scoutmasters.  Later they said all gay, all okay.

Then they decided that if they could not attract boys they’d try the age old lure for boys, girls.  The logic was, if we get the girls and the boys will follow.  Now that they want girls, they are finding out that the boys have to go.  So they drop the “Boy” from Boy Scouts in favor of “Scouts BSA.”  The mystery in this decision is that the “BSA” still stands for Boy Scouts of America.  WTH.

That is the same as the all gay, all okay method of first taking a half step to get people used to the idea, then taking the full step on the policy change.  The next step will be dropping the “B” from BSA.  Then in the coupe de gras to the once great organization, the “B” will be replaced with LGBTQRSDTYFGUKHJLKHKGJCB Scouts.

In ten years the same people who killed the Boy Scouts of America will be commissioning studies to find out why American boys are so f*cked up.  They will determine that boys need supervised time where they can act like boys knocking each other down, tying knots without girls laughing at them when they foul up, crawling in the dirt, learning to share the last pudgy pie on a camping trip, making hobo stew, fish, canoe, shoot etc., etc., etc., etc. forever.

The Scouts issued a statement that read in part, “We wanted to land on something that evokes the past but also conveys the inclusive nature of the program going forward…We’re trying to find the right way to say we’re here for both young men and young women.”

YGBSM!  Do they even know who the Boy Scouts are?  A boy cannot join the Boy Scouts until he’s at least 11 years old.  An 11 year old “young man”? Really?  A young man at 11?  Only when he’s being scolded as in, “You listen to me young man.  You get yourself upstairs right now and don’t come down until that pig sty you call a bedroom is cleaned up.” Otherwise, it’s always, “That’s my boy!” 

Hey douche!  The BSA was designed to be the bridge between boyhood and manhood.  It was never the Young Men Scouts of America.  That’s what the U.S. Army is for.  It’s BOY Scouts for a reason.  How dumb are these people?  Never mind, that well cannot be plumbed.

This all about membership, and membership means money.  What these wizards of smart have yet to learn is that every time they pull one of these dumbazz moves designed to keep the progressives off their backs and thereby increase membership, it has the exact opposite effect - membership declines.

While growing up, I do not recall ever being forced into a co-ed play situation.  Even in gym class the girls were only brought in for that awkward week of square dancing class.  Yeah I know. WTF. Anyhoo, what’s the big deal about boys wanting to play dodgeball with other boys.  What happens when Suzy takes a 60 mph shot to face?  The boys just go “Ooooooooooooooooooo, holy sh*t!  That had to hurt!” and then laugh their azzes off. The strikee would wear the welt like a badge of honor for the rest of the day and soak in the sympathy of the chikeepoos for his hard won battle wound. It would be game over if Suzy got smacked.

Prediction:  More Scout Troops and parents will bail on this failing organization.  As membership continues to fall, the BSA board will do more and more to accelerate the process by continuing to offend its base.