GRRRl Scouts

[dymphna79]

Other Girl Scout leaders annoy me a lot, often, in so many ways, but I don't know if I've ever been so irritated as I am by Girl Scout leaders who think they have every (theoretical, thank god) right to say they won't accept a girl with HIV into their troops, because they "don't feel qualified" since they don't have "medical training" like I do.

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[therealocelot]

Excuse me, 1990 just called. It wants its phobia back.

[dymphna79]

Seriously, I learned all about this from a very special episode of Mr. Belvedere.

[kid_lit_fan]

Yeah, I remember the "I have AIDS, please give me a hug, I can't make you sick" posters from the late eighties, and drawn by a kid!

[kid_lit_fan]

Also, is there an Exchange Bodily Fluids badge about which I don't know? I re-read Schools have nurses! Girl Scouts is more dangerous than school! several times and couldn't get it to make sense.

Do they picture the fragile, last-stages AIDS patients we saw in the early 90's? Do they think AIDS is transmitted airborne. It's awful that people this ignorant are charged with being role models!

[dymphna79]

I asked what situations people were picturing here, and got no response. I must say, I'm taking in pleasure in, for once, being able to say that they are misinformed and/or prejudiced without having to be nice about it (like other times, when they talk about religious or gay issues). Because this is, you know, cut and dried.