• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    I guess they are arguing the Scouts arent educational or work. As both work and education have laws banning discrimination based on sex if they receive federal funding.

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      Fascists don’t make a case. They just use force. In their view, argument and reason are for the weak, and the weak should not live.

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        To the public that’s true, but in court they send some poor sucker out to argue the dumbest spaghetti on the wall points ever only to be consistently admonished for saying things that imply they have no clue what the law is.

        Lots of the point is in the public though, they quietly lose constantly, and to the extent the court proceedings matter it’s akin to SLAPP suits.

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      I mean… they aren’t either. Not in this context.

      The grade schoolers aren’t employees of Scouts, nor are they students; they are members. Scouts has allowed women as volunteers and employees for as long as I can remember.

      (In America) Girls have only been allowed to participate in Scouts and Cub Scouts for less than 10 years. It was not due to legal requirements that it started, and it still isn’t fully integrated. Charter organizations (local community organizations that sponsor individual units) determine whether their units will be for boys, girls or both. The “family troop” option only became available nationwide this last year

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        Charter organizations (local community organizations that sponsor individual units) determine whether their units will be for boys, girls or both.

        That’s the real kicker here. If some babies are still so butthurt about it when they bring their boys to scouts, they can seek out a boys-only troop if they so wish.

        But that kind of option simply isn’t good enough for the jackass culture warriors, I guess. And I bet most of the most salty about it don’t even have kids in Scouts - like Hegseth. God forbid girls from some other family have the option to join Scouts, because he’s angry about a thing.

        Fuck these people.