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Yes. And growing up in NY my experience with them was a lot less toxic than what some people here are describing, so it really was pretty much just about that.
Yeah, I'm from Jersey, and similar to you it was just a thing for boys to do. There was no homophobia, we accepted from the weird kid to the sporty kid, and eveyone in between, and sometimes there were cliques and sometimes we whittled soap. We went camping sometimes. There was fire, yeah, that seems to be ubiquitous among the boy scouts.
I stopped when I got bored. There were no scandals.
Yeah, as far as I know, none of the boys were being victimized by the orthodontist scout leader, and there was no serious religious aspect. Most of the kids were probably from liberal Jewish families who went to temple mainly on the high holidays, regardless. I quit because the camping trips kept getting cancelled, and that was the main reason I enjoyed it.
Christ, why can't we just have normal things that are what they're supposed to be, without wackjobs corrupting it?
I think we can and do have normal things. I feel like exposure to mass media brings problems right to your door, and it just isn't how it is. At the same time, there is a bit of responsibility that falls on your (my) shoulders to be involved. I certainly won't stand by while some bullshit is going down especially bullshit that my kids are exposed to. I will let kids be kids, but I won't let them be poisoned with negative, fearful nonsense.
And so yeah, my response to much of the crippling depression that's blasted at us over the past 10 years has been to stick my head in the sand. And people here will chastise me for this, but I refuse to take on global problems when I've got things right here that need my attention. I know this isn't exactly what we're talking about, but I come to Lemmy to philosophize.