Friday, 19 March 2021

"Anything you can do I can do better..."

Four of the first female Eagle Scouts, from left to right: Lauren Krimm, Mia Dawbin, 
Valerie Johnston and Ysa Duenas.                                                      Source: Twitter

(CNN) Valerie Johnston knew she wanted to be a Boy Scout since she was 6. "I always wanted to be able to earn everything that my brother and all his friends were earning," Johnston told CNN. "I had my own book, and I would check off the requirements and everything, so I would wonder like, 'Well why can't I earn these?'"

In 2011 it was reported that more girls than boys became scouts in the past year - the first time this has happened in the movement's history.

When girls were asked about admitting boys they said they wanted "Girlguiding to still be just for girls. So no boys allowed!"

The Girlguiding organisation invites parents to 'register their daughters' but Girlguiding is trans-inclusive.

This drew a 'furious response' on mumsnet with 507 messages. The first reads: 

"Sorry for DM link but this is important. Brownies and Guides are going to admit boys if they identify as girls. Girls will have to share 'single sex' facilities including tents & changing rooms with them. Parents won't be told. Oh, and men who identify as women can become Brownie & Guide leaders, where they will get to supervise girls in those tents, changing rooms etc.

"How is this possible? There is an epidemic of sexual abuse. We are still in the fall-out of Rotherham, Saville etc yet we are enabling men to have access to every safe space for girls. AIBU?" [Am I being unreasonable?]

Writing about the passage of the "(In)Equality Act'" through the US House of Representatives in Virtueonline the "So-Called 'Equality Act'" is described as 'The Most Dangerous Bill of Our Time':

"It will affect every aspect of human existence from cradle to grave...No area of existence in this life will be free from the reach of its tentacles... The key point to recognize about the bill is that it will codify into law that you are a bigot, the moral equivalent of a racist. Read the full article here.

Here in Great Britain misogyny is to be treated as a hate crime. As Archbishop Cranmer wrote in his blog: "Misogyny is to be outlawed. Excellent. Now, what does it mean?" Read his opinion here.

Opponents of the ordination of women have often been accused of misogyny even though many opponents are women and married men. 

'Misogyny'  and 'discrimination' are frequent accusations from feminists in response to genuine theological disagreement, using secular criteria to appeal to society.

But the Church is losing her influence. Wales Humanists are celebrating what they describe as a "major development for secularism in Wales" after the Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru) passed a bill that "officially includes humanism in the school curriculum of all public schools in Wales."

Wales Online reports: Traditional boundaries between subjects are scrapped and there will be instead six new areas of learning and experience (AoLEs). Mandatory in the new curriculum will be "Religion, values, and ethics" and "Relationships and sexuality education".

Formal RE lessons will be scrapped and replaced with “religion, values and ethics” so humanism will be given the same importance as Christianity and Islam.

In Canada a father has been arrested for “misgendering” his own 14-year-old child by calling her his “daughter,” and referring to her with the pronouns “she” and “her.”

The father had "previously discovered that his daughter’s school had been showing her sexual and gender identity education materials known as “SOGI 123,” which the report referred to as transgender 'propaganda videos'.

"By the 7th grade, the school had changed his daughter’s name in the yearbook without telling her parents, and “socially transitioned” her with the input of gender ideologue psychologist Wallace Wong, who advised the pubescent child to take testosterone."

3 comments:

  1. This is a serious question. If it sounds stupid well that's because I am dim...

    WHY is it that women feel driven to destroy any sort of organisation that was designed for men / boys? I mean, even though we have Rainbows, Brownies and Guides, feminism dictates that females MUST be allowed to join Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. WHY? It is GOOD for males and females to have mutually exclusive "clubs" imho. That's just one common example but the same goes in sports too - even if a girl / woman can join a female football team, the cry "EQUALITY" goes up and males have to accept females into their midst (often at great cost and inconvenience to organisers). While apart from the odd oddball or two, I never hear of boys or men rioting for the right to join the WI, Brownies, TWG... alright we have male members of the MU these days (though I don't really care for that either - yeah I KNOW you don't have to be a mother to offer mothering) but let's be honest, by and large rather like Isl@m-oh-faux-bia, the shouting and wailing and placard waving just comes from one group, claiming they "just want..." but are really angling for something deeper and more destructive. Do women ENJOY being in each other's company as men do? Or is it more about crushing and tearing down what the "other" has and enjoys rather than wanting to enjoy and "cherish" it? I seriously AM interested in this.
    I guess the cries of, "Foul! Fascist! Sexist! Bigot! Will be aimed at me now (again). Or worse still in the eyes of many - "Traditionalist, Patriot.... MAN!

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    1. Interestingly, Father, an anonymous comment making a similar point about the role of women was received in response to "Foot in the door". It was not published because a pseudonym had not been added to identify the commentator among other anonymous commentators.

      This is what was written:

      "Perhaps this is not directly on topic, but regarding women deacons, I can say that in my church in the ACNA, the women deacons we have all are in agreement with the traditional, men-only priesthood. They also see themselves as having necessary work to do, or roles to play, in the church, quite different from the priests and men deacons. This is all based on a robust understanding of male and female in creation as "unity with distinction," and a sacramental theology and appreciation of theology of the body, often alluded to by the local sound bite of "matter matters." I think that in addition to a deep respect for the traditional doctrines surrounding the Eucharist, Holy Orders, Matrimony, etc., there has to be a recognition of the gifts and abilities of women, and openness to women exercising their spiritual gifts and talents in appropriate ways. Part of the trouble is that (secular) western culture, or at least American culture, has been telling women since the 1970's that only the things they do that are what men also do give them any value. Instead of token speeches on Mother's Day once a year, we need to value women for their unique contributions all the time -- as real women, not playacting as men. That this is being kept "fully alive" in at least one corner of the ACNA is a sign of hope for tradition-friendly Anglicans everywhere, I think. (If you search on the terms in quotation marks, you can find more resources, and here's another one: "an elegy for gender?") "

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    2. Much better put than my comment and I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks AB.

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