Noah Berlatsky

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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."

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

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

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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.

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.