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Adam Kotsko boils down the standard annoying rhetorical strategies people often use in politicalish arguments.

Don't leave home. Or you might not be allowed to come back.

The WaPo reports on an interesting study that suggests that test scores go up if test-takers aren't first reminded that they're not expected to do well. What's really interesting is that the boys' scores didn't go up with positive reinforcement the way the girls' did. The obvious conclusion is (duh) that boys, as Mr. B. once pointed out to some neanderthal co-workers, are given the message throughout childhood that they can do whatever they want, so they start off with a baseline self image of competence and ability that is frequently undermined for girls.

Really nice piece and link on Broadsheet about the ongoing fuckeduppedness that is the myth that boys who actually like girls are unmanly. The saddest part of the whole thing is how isolated boys feel about this stuff:

"One of the boys said that he'd never talk to his friends this way, the way that he talked to the interviewer, because those boys don't have the feelings that he has."