Noah Berlatsky

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."

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.