Noah Berlatsky

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.