Noah Berlatsky

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

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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