Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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?

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

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

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

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.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.