Noah Berlatsky

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

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

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.

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

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