Noah Berlatsky

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

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.

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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