Comments on: New Mondays, with added spice

By: Daddybean

Daddybean — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:26:46 +0000

I’ve already put my name down to help out in a couple of weeks time

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:08:30 +0000

daddybean, you could perhaps offer to be a brownie helper…

By: Daddybean

Daddybean — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:51:37 +0000

Don’t think so Alison. I’vr got no problem with them being single sex, and I assumed it was for the ‘girls own space’ idea that Guides remained.

But I do have a sense in which the activities at Rainbows (can’t comment on the Brownies yet, and i’m going just on our group) do tend towards ‘safe’ girly type things. I don’t necessarily think that preferring to be in an all female group and necessarily wanting to do girly stuff have to go together

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:50:51 +0000

Alsion – she wasn’t wanted by the Brownie leader of the group she wanted to join with her fellow rainbow girls were going to. I understand it’s because she doesn’t go to the same school. And then to compound the problem, she doesn’t attend school at all. I only know this much as my friend runs the Rainbows group she used to attend.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:12:33 +0000

Obviously? I think there’s a place for single sex and mixed groups. Is there no Baden-Powell-inspired group that is strictly boys only now then?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:21:20 +0000

I’m obviously against the whole guiding movement. Think we well may join the scouts in protest.

By: tbird

tbird — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:08:18 +0000

aparently the reason that Guiding stayed “girls only” is that there was a feeling that girls *need* a “girls only space” and that if they want to do boy stuff they can do that elsewhere. I suspect that means that Guides tends to attract “girlie girls” whereas Scouting attracts “roughy toughy girls” I’m still undecided if any sort of discrimination even the volentary kind, is 100% okay but I do like my little gang of giggly girls and they all say that they like to not have the “horrid boys” around!

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:05:00 +0000

Sounds chaotic! I often think S would much prefer to Beavers to Rainbows or Cubs to Brownies although the ages don’t quite corrolate so she’d have to start one and then move to the other (although they don’t happen on the same day so maybe she could do both) but for now it seems to be her little window of girliness in an otherwise mud packed week.