Noah Berlatsky

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.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

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

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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?