This is a big win for our side of the culture war. Girls have been participating in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts for years now at the regional level. This is just acknowledging it at the BSA national level. And of course, girls have been in the Sea Scouts, Adventure Scouting, and Explorers portion of the BSA for longer than I've been alive.
Sorry about everyone's butthurt that's not letting them see it.. Don't let the facts get in the way. Like having segregated girl only and boy only troops for those who want them.
This is like the Trump presidency, you may need to look at who the enemies are to know if you're on the right side of the issue or not.
The GSA is PISSED, and by default I'm for anything that makes that bunch of crusty NYC rad-fem lesbians that use the girls and cookies as a fundraising ploy angry.
Big win? I'm more than a little skeptical.
GSA is ALREADY dying. That the BSA is poaching the few girls that aren't interested in the lib-fest that GSA has become is really no big deal. GSA is going to die, and soon, anyway.
Instead, the BSA has completely lost the point of its charter. It's no surprise, though, after they caved on homosexuals in the scouts, which is a related issue.
The point of an organization that allows boys to learn and interact
as boys without the problems and concerns that occur when the sexes are mixed. (This is ESPECIALLY important during the teen years.)
Boys need to learn how to be men without the added pressures, dynamics, and conflicts that the presence of girls necessarily brings. Boys act differently when girls are around. (And, I will assume the reverse is true.)
BSA was one of the few organizations that stuck to their founding principles, recognizing this. Sadly, it will not be strengthened by this move, and as a "killing blow" to GSA, it will eventually turn into a "killing blow" for the BSA. BSA is already pretty well feminized by the myriad of restrictions placed on boys in the past 20-30 years. This will now be increasingly the case as females have greater and greater influences on the future of the organization.
(Or are you going to tell me that BSA won't change at all from having their membership shift from vast majority male to a much closer ratio?)