I'm not sure what culture you were raised in, but in mine treating the elderly like they have the emotional maturity of a 4 year old isn't respect.

funny, I always learned that talking about shit that makes it clear you're making small talk, rather than actually taking an interest in someone, is rude.

or maybe if you're using "stock questions" to carry a conversation, you're the one who's not interesting

the problem with people is that they assume the standards and practices in their family are common to all families. Maybe her family has a sense of humor

fun fact: not everyone's family operates off the same assumptions and protocols as yours. If her family didn't find it rude, it wasn't rude. Get your head out of your ass

Have you ever considered how degrading it is to treat the elderly as if they're somehow not like everyone else?

You have a pretty terrible grasp of how language works if you think two words can't mean the same thing. Remember that "synonyms" concept?

Don't get me wrong, he's adorable and my favorite character. Probably because all the flawsiness

Neil doesn't have flaws, Neil *is* flaws

It's iggy especially because she appropriates black culture at her convenience for profit, but doesn't do anything about the problems black people face

So then don't comment. And also stop looking at kids in a sexual context. It's creepy.

Wait, you're the one talking about a child in a sexual context because of the clothes she's wearing and you think the shirt is the problem?

How are they inappropriate?

Except that rather than teaching her, they made her sign a piece of paper full of words she didn't know and explained none of it.

Also, Girl Scout awards/advancement changes so often, that it makes it very difficult for non-scout organizations to build a program based on advancement.

My local climbing gym lets troops do lock ins, which would be good for your girls (if you have a gym locally) because you get the slumber party aspect with a really awesome, gender neutral activity. Even if it's not a program that they list, ask a manger to see if it's something they'd be willing to do for you.…

That's awesome! My astronomy professor from my first year of college is a woman, and she would go off on this fantastic rants about badass female astronomers from the past who didn't/don't get credit for their work and how even today astronomy is full of douchey male researchers who take their female research…

^This. My Girl Scout troop was led by two Boy Scout leaders and our troop was awesome. I had several guy friends, however, who dropped out of Boy Scouts because of boring troops. The biggest issue with Girl Scouts is the lack of outdoor training available for leaders, which is a demand issue, similar to what the…

And another person with no real experience with small children. They're all like this.

Someone hasn't interacted with small children in any substantial amount...