Noah Berlatsky
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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.
Read...Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.
Read...The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.
Read...It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.
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...Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.
Read...Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?
Read...For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.
Read...A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.
Read...Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.
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