Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.
Read...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.
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.
Read...Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.
Read...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.
Read...Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.
Read...A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.
Read...Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.
Read...Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.
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