Noah Berlatsky

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

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

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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

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

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.