Noah Berlatsky
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According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.
Read...As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.
Read...Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.
Read...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.
Read...Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...
Read...The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.
Read...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."
Read...If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.
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