Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

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

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.