Thought of something while running errands today. I see a lot on the news for gender equality, how come there's no uproar over "MEN WORKING" signs. I see plenty of women working construction, just find it kinda funny I see so much protesting on tv over equality and you never hear about this. We change the boy scouts to scouts of America which I find to be ridiculous, that's just my opinion, why not the simpler things instead like road signs. Please don't take post this the wrong way I'm all for equality we are all humans with the desire to be treated as one but I think society is taking this issue just a little too far.
Work Ahead ...I think I’ve begun seeing them..
I can't recall the last time I saw a , 'men working' sign
Uh oh.....
You've started yet another political correctness uproar.
I'm with you. I don't think girls should be in the Boy Scouts. That's why they had the Girl Scouts. If it all became "Scouts of America" that would solve the problem.
As for "Men Working" how about "People Working?" That should solve the problem.
I used to infuriate my mother a few years ago. She liked the TV program "Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman." I told mom that due to political correctness the title was being changed. It would now be called "Doctor Quinn, Medicine Person."
When I was in Haiti we MKs (missionary kids) had a boy scouts manual, and we memorized it..learned to tie all the knots, how to build shelters, learned the codes..Morse code, flags, braille, did it all. We learned common North American animal and bird tracks, how to make and shoot bows and arrows, throw knives with deadly accuracy, etc.
When we arrived in the US when I was nine, I was excited, thinking that I could finally join the Boy Scouts. To my horror, I was shunted into the brownies with GURLS, where everyone sat around in a living room and ate cookies and planned other meetings to do the same thing. No knots, tracking, camping, or even going outside at all. I was disgusted and never returned.
But later on, when I read The Tracker: The True Story of Tom Brown Jr., where he tells of being trained since he was eight by a genuine Apache Indian elder until he could walk among wild deer, trailing his hand over their backs, and they never saw him, and could track ants across bare rock, etc. When he first attended a Boy Scout troop he was shocked at how silly and urban it was.