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"J. Hugh Sullivan" wrote in message news:
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That's okay generally speaking. But, I am inclined to think that some
people have better reasons for using the bathroom of the opposite sex for more than voyeurism or minimum IQ.
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouts, was a fag and a pedo.
Tom Jeal's "The Boy-Man", a 1990 biography, details Baden-Powell's
attraction to, and likely affairs with, teenage boys, as well as his
fondness for nude boy photos and requirements that Scouts in his care should bathe outside naked. When Baden-Powell died, his family promptly burned his voluminous collection of photographs. Today he would have made the top ten
on a sex offenders registry list.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119802.The_Boy_Man http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/scoutings-gay-founder.html
"Baden-Powell, the founder of the scout movement, liked to look at photos of nude schoolboys with his friend, a schoolmaster and keen amateur snapper of
his pupils. This seemed perfectly natural to them, part of the healthy
outdoor life. Now they would get into serious trouble."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/may/28/childprotection
Scouting -- which Baden-Powell referred to as a "character factory" -- was a regiment to inculcate a deeply conservative, secular Christianity that
espoused a defensive nationalism, racial intolerance, and sexual
prohibitions. Scouting would turn out real men who would maintain the status-quo, and not challenge prevailing social standards. When World War I erupted Scouting was seen as the breeding ground of good soldiers.
As World War II began Baden-Powell's repulsive political and racial
attitudes, which inform the history of Scouting but are clearly separate
from it as well, became even more evident. In 1937 Baden-Powell was eager
for the scouting movement to establish official ties with Hitler youth
groups. In 1939 he noted in his diary: "Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda,
organization etc. -- and ideals which Hitler does not practice himself."
While the Boy Scouts today are certainly not a neo-Nazi group, nor as paramilitary as they were in the past, many of Baden-Powell's original ideas still remain -- especially those that inform how "real men" are made in the character factory.
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