Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

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

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

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.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.