Noah Berlatsky

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

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.

"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.

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.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

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