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..."I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."
Read...A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.
Read...A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.
Read...Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.
Read...Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.
Read...Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.
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...As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.
Read...Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.
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