Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.