Noah Berlatsky

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.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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.