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Girl Scouts...Yuck
I belonged to the Girlscouts for exactly as long as it took me to realize that while we were selling cookies, learning how to fold towels, and practicing 'lady-like' behavior, the *boy*scouts were learning survival skills, knife skills, camping skills, and other *fun* skills.
This segregation of knowledge by sex can only reinforce the belief in the inferiority of females present in large swaths of muslim culture as well as reinforcing the sterotypes of muslims that most Americans have.
The Girlscouts is a LAME organization, and it isn't made any less lame by topping its members with 'swirly headscarves.'
'Hijab Arrangement' will be the next GS merit badge, no doubt.