Noah Berlatsky

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

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?

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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.

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

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

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As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.