Talk:Bedder

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Gender[edit]

The article strongly implies that bedders/scouts are all female. This hasn't been the case for many decades, and would actually be an illegal practice. Bedders/scouts are really just domestic cleaners nowadays, and I know several male scouts personally. It's even possible the majority are now male, though I don't have a good ref to support this. The days when they were matronly, motherly figures supporting lonely (male) undergraduates are long gone. Ef80 (talk) 16:11, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]