Girling the Boy Scouts
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Men and boys who aspire to become men are in a sorry state.
If only there were an organization to encourage boys to strive for goodness, self-mastery, and excellence.
Oh, wait, such an institution already exists, or did until it was dismantled.
The Boy Scouts of America, that storied organization that once epitomized the best of masculinity, is no more; it’s now Scouts BSA.
The word boy has even been expunged from the organization’s promotional materials and replaced with the word youth.
For more than 100 years, scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath. How and why the Boy Scouts have been brought down is a case study of how the progressive left worms its way into an institution and hollows it out until there’s nothing left, but a shell.
The Boy Scouts were an easy target, wholesome, patriotic and above of all male.
Feminist and gay advocacy groups started suing the organization for its failures of inclusivity. In 2015, the Scouts dropped its ban on openly gay.
Scout Masters trans-Scouts came next in 2019. Scouts admitted girls within short order. The scouts had hired its first Chief diversity officer and vice president of diversity and inclusion. Scout CEO Roger Cron summed up the rebranding perfectly. He told the associated press that the name change from Boy Scouts of America to Scouts BSA sends the message that everyone can bring their authentic self and be welcomed all this has happened when the need to valorize males or merely acknowledge their existence is greater than ever but of course that was the idea to emasculate the Boy Scouts what could be more frightening than an organization that aspires to create good men.
The Boy Scouts were founded in the early 20th century. The British war veteran Robert Powell despaired at The Lost Boys he saw in London slums, seemingly
deficient in the Victorian virtues of honesty heiness and self-reliance.
Powell envisioned an organization that would combine boys craving for heroism with a coat of chivalry wrapped in the lore of the outdoors he and his North American counterparts understood masculinity as self-sacrificing and ennobling
Chief Scout citizen theater Roosevelt reminded the American Boy Scouts in 1915 that manliness in its most rigorous form Canon ought to be accompanied by unselfish consideration for the rights and interest of others the value of an all boy organization was self-evident to the Boy Scouts Founders and to the Scout leaders who followed them masculine comradeship underlies M’s willingness to undertake military and Civic sacrifice boys compete with one another torment one another but also Elevate one another they seek adult males to emulate ideally their fathers but in the absence of their own father a father figure embodying masculine virtue that Father Figure can even be imaginary boys aspirations are fired by Tales of male courage and the accomplishment of great feats.
Today, American boys are plagued by fatherlessness, whereas in the early 20th century, boys lost their biological fathers to war, industrial accidents, and tuberculosis. Now they lose them to parental irresponsibility.
In 2022 40% of All American children were born to single mothers black newborns faced a catastrophic 69% illegitimacy rate while more than 53% of Hispanic children were born to unmarried females whites had a 27% illegitimacy rate the rate among the white underclass is twice that boys suffer the most in the typical fatherless household with its lack of structure parade of shiftless boyfriends and inconsistent discipline there are exceptions to this chaos of course the disintegration of the family coincided with the devalorization of males making the possibility of even a symbolic Father Figure remote positive male characters in television and movies have more often than not been replaced by adults and abusers feminism was Zero Sum
It championed females by tearing males down the concept of toxic masculinity was active decades before the American Psychological Association declared traditional masculinity a malady civilization creating traits such as competitiveness stoicism and the desire to provide for others the APA declared were not behaviors to be promoted but to be fearful of one can guess what Teddy Roosevelt would have thought of all this he and Bay Powell wanted to equip boys with with a Timeless code of selfless values to help turn boys into good men worthy husbands and fathers no one thinks of asking the Girl Scouts to sacrifice the word girl in the name of inclusivity nor end its all girl membership rules only men are called upon to cancel their presence and their Traditions with a final eraser of boy from Boy Scouts of America.
The progressive left is brought down another American institution the boy scouts are no more will they rise again all it would take is a Few Good Men I’m Heather McDonald Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Prager University thank you for watching this.