Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.
Read...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.
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
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...Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.
Read...Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.
Read...Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.
Read...Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.
Read...Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.
Read...A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.
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