Why We Love Girl Scouts (and Seth Green!)

November 14, 2011 By 3 Comments

I don’t know if kids are still into being Girl Scouts. I hope so; I was a Brownie and a Junior, and it was a pretty rocking combination of exploring the Forest Preserve near my house and choreographing dance routines to Duran Duran’s “Wild Boys” (God knows why). It’s also the most natural training ground for future feminists if it’s done right, fostering cooperation and friendship among girls while encouraging them to have their own adventures and be self-sufficient. That’s why I’m heartened to see that the Scouts are keeping up with the times, as evidenced by this awesome video about media literacy, starring a bunch of teen stars, a few Desperate Housewives … and Seth Green! I haven’t been this fond of him since he was in Can’t Hardly Wait.

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Author: Jennifer Armstrong

Jennifer Armstrong is the co-founder of SexyFeminist.com and a pop culture writer. She spent nearly a decade at Entertainment Weekly, where she was a senior writer covering TV and women in entertainment. She is the author of the Why? Because We Still Like You, a history of the original Mickey Mouse Club published by Grand Central in 2010, and is currently working on a book about The Mary Tyler Moore Show, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2013, and co-authoring The Feminist Bombshell, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013. She has provided pop culture commentary for CNN, VH1, A&E, and ABC, and her writing has been featured in Salon, Details.com, Match.com, Glamour, Budget Travel, and the Chicago Sun-Times.Her essays have appeared in the anthologies Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings, and Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest.
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Comments

  1. Random Person Who Clicked A Link? says:
    November 14, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    I’m confused. Are celebrities telling me not to listen to celebrities? So if I do, then I don’t… and if I don’t, then I do…

    I think this is how Spock killed those robots in that one episode.

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    • The Sexy Feminist says:
      November 14, 2011 at 10:36 pm

      Ha, very true. But we prefer our celebrities this way to when they’re telling us they just looove eating cheeseburgers and fries even though they’re size zeroes.

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  2. Elle says:
    November 14, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    OK, ALL of us here at FNJ totally agree. Seth is a babe!

    *whispers* Yeah, we all did the whole “Make up your own choreography to Duran Duran songs”-thing too.

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