Noah Berlatsky

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

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

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

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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.