Noah Berlatsky

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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.

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?

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.