Noah Berlatsky

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.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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