-A sign of excellent high-integrity scholarship is when the positive _insights_ contained in a work can be appreciated independently of the author's normative agenda (if any).
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-[Something to Protect](/2019/Jul/the-source-of-our-power/)
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-Judith Butler stereotype threat
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-> "Since many jobs take time and effort to learn to do well, families could save time by dividing duties and encouraging individuals to specialize. Little girls could learn to do the labor expected of women, and little boys the labor expected of men" https://behavioralscientist.org/gendered-division-of-labor-served-a-purpose-to-make-progress-dont-erase-it-replace-it/
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-> "Even if [Larry Summers] was right, he ought to have kept his mouth shut." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-math-and-science_b_6573074
+It wouldn't have worked. I mean, it probably would have worked _as propaganda_, but it wouldn't have worked in the sense of [my dream about the use of maps](/2019/Aug/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason/#a-dream-about-the-use-of-maps)—as scholarship, a beacon through the darkness, showing us the way to start to repair the world we actually live in, and not only the appearance of it.