This is certainly not the first missive I’ve written concerning what I perceive to be the downfall of the Boy Scouts of America, but it may be the last. The circle has closed and the end is beginning. An article recently highlighted the ‘achievement’ of the first girl to receive Cub Scouting’s highest honor, the Arrow of Light. The AOL is a mini-version of Boy Scout’s Eagle Scout award, albeit nowhere near as prestigious.
It typically is the culmination of 5 years of Cub Scouting experience, requiring what were time requirements and active participation, along with a certain requirement of various badges and achievements. This is not to say that a girl couldn’t earn the award. This is to say that in only 1 year since joining Cub Scouts, there is no way she could have, without having requirements ‘pencil whipped’ by adults trying to set a narrative and trying to ‘be the first’. So what, you say? So, this not only diminishes the award for the boys that have earned it the real way, it sets an example and a message that although you bitch and
scream for equality, you really don’t want the level playing field you’re screaming for.
This is a continuing theme in the modern day to tear down the traditional roles of men in western society and replace it with a feminine narrative that doesn’t advocate the equality the last generation strove for, but an inequality based on a vengeance to supersede and totally humiliate this generations of men. We brought his about by our over enthusiastic urges to be accepting and compliant with the diversity narrative fed to us through media.
For example, watch TV and watch carefully laundry detergent commercials. Something benign and every day, right? Not so much now, considering that Proctor and Gamble, the largest conglomerate that controls most of the laundry products, is headed by a woman. Now, watch commercials closely and you will see that 90% of them have the man doing laundry, often as part of a dual male household, or the most popular of diversity examples these days, a bi-racial/bi-cultural household.
Again, this isn’t to say that men can’t do laundry. I was a Sailor, and did my own laundry all the time. Even at home, my wife took responsibility for laundry, but I always ironed and prepared my own uniforms. This also isn’t to say that laundry is a strictly female only responsibility. It is to say, however, that we are being forced fed a narrative of what we have to mimic to be consider in compliance with our societal norms. If we accept the continuation of the emasculation of today’s men, we are doomed to repeat the cycle of
inequality rage fueling a shift in a narrative that doesn’t need to be shifted. All things are not equal, nor are they designed to be. There is no perfect balance, it is an ever continuing exercise in the management of philosophical physics.
It is OK to have roles, traditions, and mores. It has shaped societies for better and for worse. But when we allow the experiment to be a closed subject, controlled one, we are
manufacturing results to suit our desires. We are not allowing for the course of nature, nor are we allowing for the evolvement of ourselves and our societies.
Let boys be boys and let girls be girls. Where they all fall out on the societal expectation scale should be left to course, not cause.