I love the topic of how all little girls go through a weird dark magical mystic phase and the implications that it’s because they feel powerless is worth exploring but in this case I just want to talk about how every year my Girl Scout Troop would do a winter campout in some big lodge in the woods,
And our leaders (my mom and two other girls’ moms) would plan a rigid schedule full of activities like crafts and games and outdoors skills, and while we all mostly enjoyed the outdoors skills part (compasses, firebuilding, etc.) we HATED the craft portions and every year we complained and complained
Until finally one year when I was about 12 and the girls in the troop were 7-12 years old, our parents gave in and granted us more free time.
So we immediately formed a cult.
We didn’t have much to work with, but we managed to come to an agreement that our religion and laws should focus around the toilet in the disabled stall in the two-stalled lodge bathroom.
Quickly, a rigid heriarchy formed, with the older girls holding status above the younger, but nepotism played a role where some of the Brownies had older sisters of higher ranks.
We all renamed ourselves, and we wrote and organized an elaborate ritual for making sacrifices to the water, by way of flushing things down the toilet. Writing prayers on toilet paper and flushing it was a popular means of expressing our faith.
Only three girls, including myself, were allowed to touch the toilet or flush it, because we had written the rituals and were the high priestesses. Anyone wishing to dedicate a prayer or offering had to come to the bathroom and be given audience with us (everyone was seen and heard), and we would then flush their item.
Although there were definitive ranks in our theoracracy, everyone was an equal spiritually. The toilet did not discriminate against prayers and would grant wishes to anyone with faith. Everyone was allowed to partake in songs and dances and meals, and everyone was happy.
Anyway. I like to remember this and think about “lord of the flies” situations bc apparently, when left to their devices in a secluded cabin in the woods, little girls turn up their nose at violence in favor of religious customs and straight up Idolatry.
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