Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

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."