Noah Berlatsky

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

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.

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.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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