Noah Berlatsky

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

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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.

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.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.