Noah Berlatsky
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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?
Read...A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.
Read...Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.
Read...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.
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.
Read...Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.
Read...Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?
Read...Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.
Read...Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.
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