[ SECRET POST #2084 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2084 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[mekkio]

Boy Scout means you always play by the rules to a fault. You are overly good and nice to the point that you are wishy-washy, bland and harmless.

[(Anonymous)]

...when did Boy Scout start to mean that, exactly? Because that's not the sort of connotation it carries in these parts. :/

[mekkio]

It really started in the 80's in the US with all of those cop shows and movies. Someone would always complain that such and such lead character was a "boy scout," meaning he was wishy-washy, harmless, do-gooder only for the show/movie to end with the "boy scout" being the action hero who broke the rules, killed the bad guys and saved the day.

It's such a movie/show cliche that I am surprised that people haven't heard of it before.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Well, that's good to know, I guess. :/

Thanks!

[tabaqui]

I think it's older than that. Certainly something i was aware of as a kid, and that was the seventies.

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da

weird. so...it's a bad thing to think of him as this? or good? or its bad to use the term as an insult?

haha its been awhile since I've felt completely like a fish out of water with a secret. Definitely cultural context is important?

[(Anonymous)]

The bad part of the insult is the blandness and wishy-washiness, and subsequent passivity or boringness. A big part of it, I think, is that assertiveness and individuality (and in that vein, not just going along with rules just because they're rules) are emphasized in the US. There's also some connotations of being holier-than-thou about it, kind of like goody-goody, or Goody Two-Shoes.

[mekkio]

Exactly. Couldn't put it better myself.