Noah Berlatsky

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

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.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

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.