Noah Berlatsky

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

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?

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

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?

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

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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