Noah Berlatsky

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

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

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.