Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.