Noah Berlatsky
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For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.
Read...The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.
Read...Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.
Read...Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.
Read...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.
Read...If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.
Read...This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.
Read...Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.
Read...Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.
Read...Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.
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