Noah Berlatsky

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.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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

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

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

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?

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

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