Noah Berlatsky

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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.

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

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