Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

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

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.

"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.

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.