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So... For what it's worth, this is coming from a former Girl Scout.
Maybe I had an unfair advantage. I grew up in a very rural place, and our troop leader was well versed in the outdoors, and had a lot of land. Most of our outdoors times were spent on her land... Even though no one got an easy time out there.
But a lot of the things we did were what the Boy Scouts did. In fact, a lot of things we did were more outdoors-oriented.
In my area, even though both groups did community service, the Boy Scouts were way more involved in veteran programs, learning civil duties (like hanging out with police/firemen), and building the town. Maybe that's why so many of those now-men live in that town, they've been dedicating their lives to improving it since they were in the single digits.
Our Girl Scouts were about the 'bonds of sisterhood' (lol nothing but a bunch of bitches in my troop, although that's not the way it always was), while still teaching basic survival needs and enforcing outdoor living. We had between 5-10 camping trips a year depending on the weather. One was even dedicated strictly to a night outdoors in below zero weather. If we wanted to be warm, we had to make our own fire. If we didn't bring food or catch food, we didn't eat. No one gave you a handout, there was no "sharing is caring"... The only true troop-bonding experience was when we roasted marshmallows on the final day of the trip. Other than that, we learned to take care of ourselves as individuals.
We had a lot of fun, though, it wasn't miserable at all. We hung bras up on the flagpoles. We threw rocks in the lake and had our own 'Loch Ness Monster' looking log. There was ALWAYS a poison ivy breakout. And no one took a shower. We could get away with it, we were kids in the forest.
Again, maybe my experience was different. We didn't need to have our female genitals verified by saying we were part of the 'Boy' Scouts... We were having a good enough time doing our own things.
