Noah Berlatsky

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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.

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

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

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.