Noah Berlatsky

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.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

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.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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