Noah Berlatsky
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Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.
Read...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.
Read...As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.
Read..."The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.
Read...In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.
Read...For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.
Read...While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.
Read...A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.
Read...With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.
Read...Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.
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