Noah Berlatsky

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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

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.