Noah Berlatsky

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.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.