Noah Berlatsky

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.