Noah Berlatsky

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

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.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

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