Noah Berlatsky

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.