Noah Berlatsky

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?

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

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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