Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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."

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

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

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

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