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.

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.

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

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 am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

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

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.