Noah Berlatsky

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

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

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

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.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.