Noah Berlatsky

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.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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