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.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

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

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

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