I wonder how many readers or viewers will catch the implicit belief behind the statements of Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England CEO Pam Hyland in response to the Boy Scouts’ decision to admit girls.  On WPRI:

CEO Pam Hyland said she was disappointed when the Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday they would now begin to accept girls.

“We still feel there’s a need in this world for girls to have a girl-only space where they can develop their leadership,” Hyland said. …

Hyland said the Girl Scouts programs are designed to empower girls to become successful women, and girls need a safe and comfortable space away from boys.

She supports families that choose to sign their daughters up with the Boy Scouts but notes that her organization has no plans to follow suit:

“The reason is that our mission is about building girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place,” Hyland said.

So, girls need a “comfortable space” in which they can just be girls without the influence of boys, but boys need no such space.  Girls have an organization that is dedicated to its fundamental mission of providing them with that which they uniquely need, but boys no longer have such an organization.

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I’ve periodically felt that I should remedy my family’s decision to break with generations of tradition of scouting, and I sometimes regret that my parents didn’t make me follow the program through to the end.  Every year, however, the organization does a little bit more to relieve me of these feelings and regrets.

If it’s just another option for childhood activity, then we don’t have the time.  Personally, I never much enjoyed the camping part, so if scouting isn’t about helping boys to be men, what’s the point?