Noah Berlatsky
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The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.
Read...Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?
Read...Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.
Read...If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.
Read...If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."
Read...As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.
Read...This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.
Read...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?
Read...Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?
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