Transgender Girl Scout cookie sales

[StLucieBengal]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/this-transgender-girl-scout-stood-up-to-a-transpho?bftw&utm_term=.hjyEDlOXOj#.chzaQNnXn1

This is hilarious

I can't paste this but she was told that "nobody wants to buy cookies from a boy in a dress" This prompted "outrage" and the Girl Scouts made her cookie sales digital cookies with her own portal.

Sorry but isn't the point of the Girl Scout cookie sales to get out and involved into the community?

[GMDino]

(02-18-2016, 10:35 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: http://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/this-transgender-girl-scout-stood-up-to-a-transpho?bftw&utm_term=.hjyEDlOXOj#.chzaQNnXn1

This is hilarious

I can't paste this but she was told that "nobody wants to buy cookies from a boy in a dress"   This prompted "outrage" and the Girl Scouts made her cookie sales digital cookies with her own portal.    

Sorry but isn't the point of the Girl Scout cookie sales to get out and involved into the community?

Well, while an interesting take...let read the article, shall we?

Quote:This Transgender Girl Scout Stood Up To A Bully By Selling Thousands Of Cookies
“I want kids like me to know they are perfect just the way they are. There are people all over the world that love you. Never give up because it does get better.”
posted on Feb. 1, 2016, at 9:31 a.m.

Leticia Miranda
BuzzFeed News Reporter


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Meet Stormi, a 9-year-old Girl Scout living in Herrin, Illinois. She loves hiking, camping, and playing tag with her new friends in the Girl Scouts.


Courtesy of Kim, Stormi’s mom
Stormi decided to join the Girl Scouts last fall, Stormi’s foster mom, Kim, told BuzzFeed News.

Stormi was put into foster care and placed with Kim three years ago through an emergency placement plan. She told Kim she wanted to donate cookies to other kids in foster care.

“I like to sell cookies because it’s very nice to sell cookies,” Stormi told BuzzFeed News. She said the cookies “make people smile.”
Kim and Stormi asked to be identified only by their first names to protect their safety.

The two ventured out into their neighborhood one Thursday in January after school. It was just months after a Colorado troop received backlash when a trans girl joined the group. But Kim had faith there wouldn’t be an issue.


Courtesy of Kim.
Kim and Stormi.

Stormi had sold 60 boxes and 15 more that day by knocking on doors.

Stormi knocked on one door three blocks from their home. A man opened the door. After Stormi made her pitch for cookies, he said, “Nobody wants to buy cookies from a boy in a dress.”


Courtesy of Kim.
Stormi.

“It made me sad,” Stormi told BuzzFeed News. “Because I’m a girl.”

She immediately wanted to go home, said Kim. She cried when she got home.

“She was like, ‘Why am I not good enough?’” said Kim. “We just started talking and she decided she wasn’t going to let him win.”

Kim moved all of Stormi’s cookie sales on Sunday, Jan. 24 to an online portal through the Girl Scouts called Digital Cookies.


digitalcookie.girlscouts.org / Via digitalcookie.girlscouts.org
Kim shared the story and website in an online forum for parents of transgender kids. Soon the story and website were shared and reposted across social media.

She received dozens of letters of support. Elizabeth S. Leet, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia, wrote, “Stormi is so brave and wonderful for standing up for herself and choosing to live as the person she’s always been!”


Courtesy of Kim.

“This is something I have been trying to instill in her for years,” Kim said. “How worthy she is; who she is is OK. For her to be able to read all these messages that people are sending from around the world to support her, the love is just overwhelming.”

Two New York-based improv performers even offered attendees free admission to their Jan. 29 show with any proof of purchase for Stormi’s cookies when they heard about her story.


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By Thursday, Stormi had sold over 3,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. She received cookie sales from places as far as Canada and Australia, said Kim.


Courtesy of Heather Kjellesvik, Girl Scout Troop #8063 Leader

Stormi with her Girl Scout troop.

“It’s just been amazing,” said Kim. “I have not seen Stormi like this in a really long time. It makes me cry because this is something she’ll never forget.”

Stormi now plans to donate cookies to foster kids every year.

“I want kids like me to know they are perfect just the way they are,” said Stormi. “There are people all over the world that love you. Never give up because it does get better.”


Courtesty of Kim
Stormi’s project to sell cookies for foster kids ended Jan. 30, but the online store is open for direct shipments until mid-March.

So to sum it up accurately:

A grown man made fun of a 9 year old who got mad and then cried. (Horror!)

Then they used the website that was NOT set up just for them.

And in the meantime Stormi continued to try and do a nice thing for foster children.




So, yeah, let's make fun of transgender people again over this?


You try to hard.

[StLucieBengal]

(02-18-2016, 10:43 AM)GMDino Wrote: Well, while an interesting take...let read the article, shall we?




So to sum it up accurately:

A grown man made fun of a 9 year old who got mad and then cried. (Horror!)

Then they used the website that was NOT set up just for them.

And in the meantime Stormi continued to try and do a nice thing for foster children.




So, yeah, let's make fun of transgender people again over this?


You try to hard.

How am I making fun of transmissions?   Just having a laugh over what the guy said.   And do we know if you order cookies off of this boys site do they get shipped to you or are you just eating digital cookies?    If there are no cookies then it's basically a gofundme for the boy in a dress.    And the Girl Scouts organization throwing some cookies at some foster kids for some good pub.

[StLucieBengal]

Oh and again thank you for posting the full article. Not sure why I can't always copy on the mobile. I appreciate you helping me out when that happens.

[GMDino]

(02-18-2016, 11:01 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: How am I making fun of transmissions?

(02-18-2016, 11:01 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Just having a laugh over what the guy said.   And do we know if you order cookies off of this boys site do they get shipped to you or are you just eating digital cookies?    If there are no cookies then it's basically a gofundme for the boy in a dress.    And the Girl Scouts organization throwing some cookies at some foster kids for some good pub.

[BmorePat87]

Cool, he's making fun of kids. Internet tough guy of year.

[StLucieBengal]

(02-18-2016, 02:09 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Cool, he's making fun of kids. Internet tough guy of year.

looks like a scam. Boy dressed up as a Girl Scout... How is the guy supposed to know the boy is a transformer?

[fredtoast]

(02-18-2016, 11:01 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote:  Just having a laugh over what the guy said.

Because being mean to little girls and making them cry is soooooo funny.

[StLucieBengal]

(02-18-2016, 02:30 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Because being mean to little girls and making them cry is soooooo funny.

He wasn't being mean to a little girl. He was being honest to a boy in a dress. How was he supposed to know he was a transformer and not just a scam?

[*bfine32*]

On a related note: When I was a kid I was a Cub Scout until I got kicked out for eating Brownies.

[*bfine32*]

(02-18-2016, 02:30 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Because being mean to little girls and making them cry is soooooo funny.

I'm sure Lucie wouldn't have shared, if he actually thought it could get back to the girl's family.

[fredtoast]

(02-18-2016, 02:37 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I'm sure Lucie wouldn't have shared, if he actually thought it could get back to the girl's family.

False analogy.  Your logic fails.

Go back and read your own thread about this.  No one in their right mind would compare criticizing the rulings of a Supreme Court Justice to being mean to a nine year old girl.


Except maybe a grown man who is a sensitive as a nine year old girl.

[fredtoast]

(02-18-2016, 02:34 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: He wasn't being mean to a little girl.    He was being honest to a boy in a dress.     How was he supposed to know he was a transformer and not just a scam?

Why would no one want to buy cookies from a boy in a dress unless he was just being mean?  

How does the dress effect the sale of cookies?

[StLucieBengal]

(02-18-2016, 02:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: False analogy.  Your logic fails.

Go back and read your own thread about this.  No one in their right mind would compare criticizing the rulings of a Supreme Court Justice to being mean to a nine year old girl.


Except maybe a grown man who is a sensitive as a nine year old girl.

Lol it was funny. And sorry but I wouldn't be buying any Girl Scout cookies from a boy in a dress either. I already buy from my friends daughters who are legitimate girls.

[StLucieBengal]

(02-18-2016, 02:43 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Why would no one want to buy cookies from a boy in a dress unless he was just being mean?  

How does the dress effect the sale of cookies?

There are loads of Girl Scout cookie scams.  

[*bfine32*]

(02-18-2016, 02:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: False analogy.  Your logic fails.

Go back and read your own thread about this.  No one in their right mind would compare criticizing the rulings of a Supreme Court Justice to being mean to a nine year old girl.


Except maybe a grown man who is a sensitive as a nine year old girl.

Analogy is perfectly fine. Of course the man that actually laughed at the poor girl needs to be monkey stomped. But there is "no harm" in sharing a link and comenting on it, if the family doesn't see it: right?

Except maybe a grown man who is a sensitive as a nine year old girl.


BTW, I went back and read the thread in question; there was a lot more than critcizing his rulings.

[StLucieBengal]

(02-18-2016, 02:50 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Analogy is perfectly fine. Of course the man that actually laughed at the poor girl needs to be monkey stomped. But there is "no harm" in sharing a link and comenting on it, if the family doesn't see it: right?

Except maybe a grown man who is a sensitive as a nine year old girl.


BTW, I went back and read the thread in question; there was a lot more than critcizing his rulings.

Where did you see that the man laughed at him?

[fredtoast]

(02-18-2016, 02:50 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Analogy is perfectly fine. Of course the man that actually laughed at the poor girl needs to be monkey stomped. But there is "no harm" in sharing a link and comenting on it, if the family doesn't see it: right?

Except maybe a grown man who is a sensitive as a nine year old girl.


BTW, I went back and read the thread in question; there was a lot more than critcizing his rulings.

No the analogy is not correct because no one in their right mind would compare criticizing a Supreme Court justice for his rulings to being mean to a nine year old girl.

Support being mean to young girl........Always wrong.

Criticizing a Supreme Court Justice for his rulings.......Only improper immediately after his death and if communicated to people in mourning.

[fredtoast]

(02-18-2016, 02:48 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: There are loads of Girl Scout cookie scams.  

But this was no scam.

what does that have to do with the dress?

[StLucieBengal]

(02-18-2016, 03:05 PM)fredtoast Wrote: But this was no scam.

what does that have to do with the dress?

It has to do with there are no boys in Girl Scouts.     Just as there are no girls in Boy Scouts.  

He may have been a scout .   But if he was then he was out of uniform. Hence the possibility of a scam.