Noah Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky

Bio

Noah Berlatsky is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He edits the online comics-and-culture website The Hooded Utilitarian and is the author of the forthcoming book Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948.

Noah Berlatsky Articles

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There's No Glamor In Writing: I'm Not A Blogger—I'm A Slogger

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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The Strange Intersection Of Anti-Semitism And Anti-Blackness Racism

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

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Why The Cover For Marvel's New All-Female Avengers Comic Is A Huge Disappointment

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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Lena Dunham's Jewish Boyfriend Quiz And The Truth About Anti-Semitism

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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The Real Reason Superheroes Should Come In All Sizes

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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Does Making A List Of The Greatest Female Comics Creators Denigrate Women?

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

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The Castrating Power Of The Femme Fatale: Ex Machina

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.

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All Hail The Great Women Of Gospel

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

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The Handmaid's Tale Is Overrated—Here's What You Should Read Instead

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

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Kathleen Gilles Seidel: Romance Novelist

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

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