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.

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

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

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.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.