Noah Berlatsky

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

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.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?