Noah Berlatsky

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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.

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

"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.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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