my girl scouts experience was doing worksheets on bird watching in the school's cafeteria when we weren't peddling cookies.  i joined because i wanted to go camping and learn to do cool stuff but it became more like a punishment.  i can definitely see how some disgruntled divorcee would try and persuade a room full of ten year olds that men are evil.  it's nice that some people have a good experience in girl scouts but that was far from my experience.