Noah Berlatsky

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.