YES. My daughter had to switch GS troops because we didn’t think the activities and environment of the first troop were benefiting her. My girl’s troop goes hiking and camping, does archery and learns how to build fires, all sorts of stuff. Girl Scouts can do anything they want to do, and they have badges for all…

That’s where this falls apart for me.

They need a leader who is going to go ‘Oh, you want to go camping, sure! Let’s figure this out. You can help research and plan’.

They don’t even need to change the Girl Scouts. They just need a more compatible troop leader. One of the Unicorn parents could step up.

Each troop determines its own activities focus, so no, it isn’t hard at all. All they need is one parent to start a new troop.

Seriously. My mom started a new troop when I was small because the woman who lead the other troop in town always canceled meetings and didn’t work on organizing activities that earned badges. We camped and built fires and learned first aid and how to sew....it was pretty awesome. These parents just need to step up and…

This. They can form their own troop and do whatever they want. My troop was heavy into outdoor activities, but other troops were more ... Troop Beverly Hill-ish.

Especially since Girl Scout troops with the varied form of activities exist. I clung to a side of a mountain, went camping in two feet of snow, figured out how to build a fire in a downpour. There were times we did less ‘exciting’ things like crafts and the like, but that’s because it was a troop-everyone was supposed…

here is my two cents nobody asked for: Not quite sure why the Unicorns can’t just form their own Girl Scout troop and do outdoor stuff with girls their own age. The whole point of these organizations is to develop skills and friendships among a gender-specific peer group. If you don’t want to participate according to…

Girl Scout troop activities are generally troop-driven and pretty flexible, so it seems like it would make more sense for them to either request some changes in the activities that their old troop does, or to start their own Girl Scout troop with more of a focus on outdoor activities.

I don’t know how I feel about this. I agree that there should be programs available for girls who are interested in the typical boy scout activities, but I don’t know if I’d agree that it’s never ok to have a club that’s explicitly for one gender. Like, Girl Scouts were a big part of my sister’s life, and I know that…

“making permanent legal residents show the company a new green card after their original expired.”

It’s because creepy sexual predator and former head of ATI, Bill Gothard, says that the hairstyle God wants for women is long with soft curls. It just happens to also be the style that Gothard likes and encouraged all the very young women he harassed and molested for decades to wear.

But the curl thing is a specific quirk of the group they are in due to the kink of their leader, Bill Gothard. It’s not just the long hair but the specific style of having curls just like the Duggar girls. I have a friend who grew up in that group and had to straighten her naturally curly hair to re curl it to be…

It’s not a coincidence. Bill Gothard, founder of the movement they follow (who is himself accused of sexual harassment/assault/coercion/general heinous dickbaggery) prefers women to wear their hair in those curls, so every female follower has that exact hairstyle.

right? I won’t lie, it happens all the time in my marriage and he does the same. Like we enjoy having sex but sometimes it’s an exchange. Not consciously always but it happens.

The Duggars might claim she’s just trying to make money off their son’s good name. Then they’ll hint at her adult film career, because to them that means she’s not really worthy of kindness or dignity.

You are supposed to bend your will to your husband’s needs (all of those needs including sex). So sex is for both procreating and your husband’s primal needs. At least that’s how I understand it.

You give the Duggars way too much credit. They’ll say she deserved it. I’m pretty sure there is no rape in ATI. (that is to say, there is a LOT of rape in ATI, but they call it wifely submission)

I have to question that in the context of their alleged religious beliefs. My understanding was that the wife is to be sexually submissive in order to not prevent pregnancy. It isn’t like she is going to get more pregnant so it should, logically, be the one time period that the woman can say no without going against…