Noah Berlatsky

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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

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

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

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.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.