Noah Berlatsky

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

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.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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."