Noah Berlatsky

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

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.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.