How Rural America Steals Girls' Futures [theatlantic.com]
Billie Jean after a breakup. Troy, New York, 2006. ( Brenda Ann Kenneally ) By Monica Potts, The Atlantic, April , 2023 "B oy crazy” was what people called it. “She was so boy crazy,” I would hear about my girlfriends. I never heard the reverse, that a boy was “girl crazy.” Girls having crushes, sneaking out at night to have fun: It seems innocent enough. But in my small, conservative town, a “wrong” choice at a young age could cut girls off from their future dreams, leaving them mired in...