Noah Berlatsky
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Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.
Read...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.
Read...Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...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.
Read..."I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."
Read...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.
Read...The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?
Read...Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.
Read...A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.
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