Noah Berlatsky
Bio
Noah Berlatsky Articles
For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.
Read...Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?
Read...Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.
Read...C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.
Read...Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.
Read...The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?
Read...If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.
Read...Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.
Read...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.
Read...Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.
Read...
