More discrimination against boys.....

[msme]

Sorry if this is a bit long but I have taken a long trip on the information super highway this morning.

My grandaughter brought home a brochure for a Girl Power Workshop to be held at her school this weekend. We thought it sounded good & I decided to see what was going to be offered for boys, as well. Boy, did I get a wake up call.

I went to the SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental HealthServices Administration, a division of DHS) web site. They sponsor the program. There were a lot of things for girls there, including a "Links for Kids" listing.

I went to their search box & typed in boys. It found about 12 things. I looked at them & all I could find was the word "him" followed by an asterix, in several places. That lead to a footnote that said the word him or his was used for ease of reading & applied to either boys or girls.

I went back to the home page & the kids links. I found that lead to more girl sites. One was a Spanish site. I went there & was given the option of Spanish or English. As I perused the site, I found it to be much like the Girl Power Site.

It was the only area that offered a phone number. I called it & heard a Spanish tape. There was no instructions for English. I finally hit "O" & got a person who greeted me in Spanish. I asked if he spoke English & he said that he did.

I then asked why there were no English instructions on the tape, since every government number we call has a message & options for Spanish speaking persons. He asked why I was calling there if I didn't speak Spanish. I told him that his web site gave the option for either language. I then told him that I objected to their lack of services for boys. He informed me that it was determined that girls have self esteem problems & the programs were needed.

I informed him that boys had more self esteem problems than girls & wanted to know why this was being ignored. He said that it wasn't being ignored. They were aware that boys had problems & last year they started research into developing programs for boys but these things can take years & years to develope.

I then asked him what their target completion date was & he told me that he was not permitted to give me that information but that it can take many years to do it.

I told him that an answer like that seemed to say that there was no rush & no time frame in sight. He said that I should take my complaints elsewhere.

He also told me that he didn't think that it was that serious a problem because mine was the first call about boys that they had ever gotten. I assured him that was about to change.

First go to //www.samhsa.gov & take a look around. See if you can find anything for boys. SAMHSA does not have a phone number. At least I haven't found it yet.
Soy Unito / Soy Latino's number is 1-800-773-8546 Hit "O"anytime during the message if you don't speak Spanish.


This really bothered me. I hope some of you feel the same.


You never get a second chance to make a first impression!

[StPaulieGirl]

More like indoctrination of Spanish speaking girls.  Because of their mainly Roman Catholic culture, it's going to have to take a pretty heavy assault to turn them into man hating feminists.  I'm sure that with our tax dollars, they may succeed.

Bleepin' government.

Hey someone posted an alternative to the Girl Scouts on another website, about a month ago.  Google up "Heritage Girls".  It's a new group started by former Girl Scout troop leaders, who were disgusted by the propaganda being fed to the girls in scouting.

It's a full time job keeping this stuff away from our kids.  

[msme]

Not just the Spanish speaking girls. The All American girls version is called Girl Power.