Noah Berlatsky

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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