Boy Scouts vs Girl Scouts
Okay, so this is a thought that popped into my head the other day.
Boy scouts learn about things like manners, etc, but a main thing they learn about are survival techniques in the wilderness, if shit happens/if technology fails for some reason.
A few days ago my friend Sarah and I were hanging out with a guy, and the topic of being a boyscout somehow became part of our conversation. Something he had done in front of us was something he learned in Boy scouts as a kid. My friend Sarah replies, "Oh wow, I never knew that."
The guy replies, "Well, didn't you learn that in girl scouts?"
My friend Sarah says, "No, we learned how to be nice little girls, and we learned how to work in the kitchen."
Now, I don't know how long my friend Sarah's been in the girl scouts, and I don't know much about the girl scouts, because I've never been involved with it. But, immediately after she said that, I wondered why the girl scouts aren't taught such handy stuff like the boy scouts learn. I mean, of course they are learning valuable things (I hope), but the Boy scouts are learning things that a person could find much more worthwhile when the time came to use some certain techniques.
So, do the girl scouts eventually learn the same as the Boy scouts?
If not, why?