Noah Berlatsky

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?