Comments | dymphna79: GRRRl Scouts

dymphna79

GRRRl Scouts

Jan 03, 2009 19:26

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. ( Read more... )

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justlines January 4 2009, 03:41:08 UTC

wow! i was just browsing around and i saw this post.....wow. i dont know what else to say. i think your current mood says just about enough.

laurieab January 4 2009, 03:49:29 UTC

It seems like this is something the national organization should have a policy about-- a nondiscrimination policy, of course, perhaps with mandatory training for leaders? Why would leaders necessarily KNOW a person was HIV-positive, anyway? I remember when I was a student, all school staff were required to take blood-borne pathogen training and have bleach kits, to use any time there was blood.

dymphna79 January 4 2009, 03:52:34 UTC

Oh, they do have a policy about it.

therealocelot January 4 2009, 03:55:45 UTC

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

dymphna79 January 4 2009, 03:59:50 UTC

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

kid_lit_fan January 4 2009, 19:21:51 UTC

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 January 4 2009, 19:24:45 UTC

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!

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yay, stigma! xayide79 January 4 2009, 04:04:26 UTC

Some people just refuse to listen until a lawsuit is involved. I can talk universal precautions and methods of transmission until I am blue in the face but some people will never give up their preconceived notions.

unflexible January 4 2009, 04:53:30 UTC

From the reaction of these troop leaders, I have to assume the girl in question not only has HIV, but it is a cutter, which is the only reason I can see for being so freaky.

dymphna79 January 4 2009, 04:56:31 UTC

There IS no girl--this is all hypothetical (although in part inspired by a case back east in 1999, where several troop leaders turned a girl down when they found out about her HIV status). They're just freaky.

unflexible January 4 2009, 05:15:53 UTC

I missed the "theoretical" on the first read. Seriously -- freaky. I'm going to send Andy and his epi-pen out to join the girl scouts with you. Can the troop leaders deal with his nut and bee sting allergies?