Noah Berlatsky

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

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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

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

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

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