Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.
Read...Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.
Read...It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.
Read...Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.
Read...Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.
Read...The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.
Read...Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.
Read...While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.
Read...At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.
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