Noah Berlatsky

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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