Noah Berlatsky

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

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

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?

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

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

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?