Girl Scout Cookies

[angus]

With the Girl Scouts having been appropriated as political footballs by the far right over the issue of abortion and sexuality,

?!

If you're associating girl scouts with sexuality, you really need to get laid, man. 

Anyway, they came to our door last week pulling a red wagon full of boxes of cookies.  There were three of them, all wearing their paramilitary brownshirt uniforms, flying banners, and singing about the glory of the fatherland or whatever.  We bought a box of cookies.  Something with chocolate.  It was $3.50 I think.  I haven't actually tried them yet. 

[angus]

With the Girl Scouts having been appropriated as political footballs by the far right over the issue of abortion and sexuality,

?!

If you're associating girl scouts with sexuality, you really need to get laid, man. 

Not that kind of "sexuality".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA (jump to the "issues" section)

Ah.  Well, what do you expect?  They're sort of our version of the Bund Deutscher Mädel.  They're indoctrinated into a certain belief system, and taught a set of values that may be inconsistent with the inclusion of lesbians in their ranks.  Anyway, I haven't heard much about this till this thread, but I don't think it's a surprise.  Personally, I'm not a fan of the paramilitary youth groups anyway, and I don't intend to encourage my son to join any of them, but I'll buy their cookies.  I buy cookies from all groups.  Band.  Boy scouts.  Girl scouts.  Latin club.  Whatever.  It's all for a good cause.  Donations to all youth clubs help keep the children off the streets and out of my way.  I may get around to actually trying the cookies at some point.  To be honest, I don't have a sweet tooth, and my son doesn't like any kind of chocolate or peanut butter or nutella or anything like that, so the cookies have remained unopened for a week.  I suppose we'll get around to trying them at some point.