Noah Berlatsky

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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

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.

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

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?