Noah Berlatsky

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.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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

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.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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."