Noah Berlatsky

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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

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

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

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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

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

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.