Noah Berlatsky
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Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?
Read...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.
Read...Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.
Read...A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.
Read...C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.
Read...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.
Read...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.
Read...In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.
Read...Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?
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