Noah Berlatsky

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

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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.

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