Noah Berlatsky

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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

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

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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