<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Are Boys Any Less&nbsp;Fragile?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Lux Alptraum <a href="http://popculturepenpals.com/?p=29" target="_self">highlights</a>&#0160;a double standard:</p> <blockquote> <p>I think that, by worrying about young women while assuming that–no  matter what trouble they get up to–-boys will, in the end, be all right,  we are doing boys a tremendous disservice. To wit: like <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/magazine/mag-27cosgrove-t.html?_r=1" target="_self">Miranda  Cosgrove</a>, Angus T. Jones (of &quot;Two and a Half Men&quot; fame) turns eighteen  this year. Unlike Miranda Cosgrove, he hasn&#39;t spent the decade sheltered  in the bosom of Disney–he&#39;s spent it at the side of a womanizing, drug  abusing, violent, emotionally disturbed man (yes, that would be Charlie  Sheen).</p> </blockquote>]]></html></oembed>