Monday, March 10, 2008

Pavlov's Cookies

or, Girl Scouts and behavioral conditioning

Well, I suppose that it could be said that having Girl Scouts sell cookies outside of Safeways and such conditions them towards a certain role in the future, however I'm not entirely sure what it is. I can only speculate, and my thoughts are as follows:

The task of selling cookies is much like a sales person's job (with the exception that it's much easier to get away from a Girl Scout than a Salesman). They just stand there and ask people if they want to buy cookies, I haven't seen any of them look happy or welcoming or even like they remotely want to sell cookies.
Other than that, I can't really see how this is conditioning girls to a certain social role or anything like that.

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