Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

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

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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

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.