Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.