Noah Berlatsky

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.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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