Noah Berlatsky

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 not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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.

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

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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

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.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?