Noah Berlatsky

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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.

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.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?