Noah Berlatsky

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

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?

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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?

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.