Noah Berlatsky

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.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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

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

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.