Noah Berlatsky

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.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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

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?

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

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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