Noah Berlatsky

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

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

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

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.