Noah Berlatsky

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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.

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

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

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

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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

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.

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

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