Noah Berlatsky

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?