Noah Berlatsky

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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

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.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.