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Re:Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges by fastball on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:00AM (#14854590)
So what your saying is: as a self-identified male, I can't be a UK Guide? Sounds gendered to me.
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Re:Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges by microcolonel on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:15AM (#14854670)
God only knows what those boys would get up to if they had freedom of association! ;- )
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Re:Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges by Samathy on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:18AM (#14856327)
No, you can't. Because girls need a safe space to be girls (without any boys around) a lot more than boys need any more spaces where they can be boys without any girls around (there's enough of those).
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Re:Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges by microcolonel on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:38AM (#14856520)
> No, you can't. Because girls need a safe space to be girls (without any boys around) a lot more than boys need any more spaces where they can be boys without any girls around.

Please substantiate this.

> there's enough of those

Name one that isn't a sports team.

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Re:Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges by to_bpr on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @11:46AM (#14857205)
What an incredibly toxic, and factually incorrect, mindset to hold.
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