Bridget happened across a
gallery
of Canadian Girl Guide badges and sent me the URL. The circular patrol emblems
are quite lovely, and the actual Guide badges are nice, but the Brownie ones are
on the creepy side. Take the Heritage badge:
This strikes me as a bit suspect, as it appears to involve cloning and incest. But as Bridget points out, they all seem pretty happy, so who am I to judge.
The Brownies also seem to encourage processing pandas into cans and paper goods:
And I have to say that it's just cruel to remind the poor girls that male and
female will suffer alike when Armageddon comes:
I could continue, but I think I'll let Lileks take it from here.