Noah Berlatsky

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.