Octarine:
I’ve still got a leeetle resentment towards this whole topic. At around age 6, when I found out I’d never be able to be an Eagle Scout, I quit Girl Scouts. Besides, it was all just selling stupid cookies - no camping or knives or anything actually interesting. But I agree there’s a self-selection that goes towards becoming an Eagle Scout; it’s less the institution shaping the kids and more that the kids with a certain mindset succeed within the institution.
I would like to be able to compare the Eagle scout to the Girl Scouts Gold medal award but I’ve only known one woman to have ever earned it ( a friends daughter) so I cant.
WordMan
October 30, 2015, 10:44am
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HoneyBadgerDC:
I wasn’t being totally open about an issue when I started this thread. I think Dseid may have answered it several threads up when he said certain personality types would tend to fall into the Eagle Scout program. I was trying to be careful not to hurt anyone’s feelings because it is a sensitive topic.
Having been a foreman or supervisor for over 40 years has put me in a position where I have had a lot of different types of people work under me. On the few occasions when I felt an employee became overly attached to me it was always former Eagle Scouts. They were always high achievers and loyal to me to a fault but extremely sensitive to a point where I couldn't deal with them objectively. I had known a couple of others that I was not associated with beyond being an acquaintance who exhibited similar behavior.
Obviously the program has nothing to do with them being like this but young men who are like this may find the program attractive for some reason. The shame is that I really liked these guys and admired them for a lot of things but they were just too hard on themselves.
Dude, you’re squicking me out. I have not seen that in the Eagle Scouts I have had work for me, or that I am exposed to as kids. I wasn’t sharing my POV to support / shed insight on the scenario you described.
ETA: As I said upthread, kinda weird on an anonymous messageboard, but there go.