Noah Berlatsky

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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

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

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.