Noah Berlatsky

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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.

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

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

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.