“Cookie Karens” are totally out of control.
She also adds: “It’s hard to grow up courageous and confident if you’re afraid of food and critical of your body. For Girl Scouts, cookie season can be fraught because they are bombarded with harmful messages. Remember you can simply say, ‘no, thank you’ if you don’t want to buy anything!”
“When you’re standing at a cookie booth for an hour- or two-hour shift, or you’re delivering cookies to someone’s house, the accumulation of seemingly harmless jokes really adds up,” she said. “The most aggressive comments were about sugar, and really frightening the girls about things like diabetes or other health conditions.”
“The girls were at the age where something like this can really destroy your self-esteem,” she added. Thankfully, she said it went over her daughter’s head, “but I’m like, ‘I don’t want to explain to my 7-year-old what an abortion is,” she added. “It doesn’t matter what my feelings are on the subject.'”
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