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My anecdotal 2 cents: I was in boyscouts and I think it was a space to develop positive masculinity, and to learn things by looking up to older boys who had been through the same experience. I think girls being present would have changed the dynamic, because teenage boys act differently and talk about different things when around teenage girls. Now that being said I’m certain not *everyone* in boyscouts developed *positive* masculinity. Boyscouts is far, far less uniform than people seem to think. There were 2 troops in my home town that were wildly different. But at least from my anecdotal experience, Boyscouts was a good thing that benefitted from being a boys-only experience, and I wonder how it has changed now that girls can join boyscout troops.