Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

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.

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

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