Noah Berlatsky

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

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

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

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

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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.