Noah Berlatsky

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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.

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.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.