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.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?