Noah Berlatsky

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

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