Noah Berlatsky

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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 surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.