“One is silver, but the other’s gold.”
Anyone who’s ever been a Girl Scout knows that song. I remember singing it once in a bar at a science fiction convention, in the company of another couple of writers and an editor†, all of us former Girl Scouts. (Though I suspect that, much as there are no former Marines, there are no former Girl Scouts. Or very few, anyhow.)
This year the Girl Scouts are test-marketing a gluten-free cookie.
The list of councils where the Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Shortbread cookie is being sold is available here.
The main reason for buying Girl Scout cookies is, of course, that they are delicious, and I say this as someone who could easily consume a whole box of classic trefoils at one sitting if I didn’t stop myself. But this year, buying Girl Scout cookies is also a way of frustrating these people, who in my opinion very much deserve frustration.
The Girl Scouts have always been a feminist organization – in some eras they’ve been more overt about it than in others, but what else do you expect from a group that has from its beginning striven to inculcate in young girls the virtues of self-knowledge, self-reliance, and sisterhood?
†Obligatory writing reference!
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