Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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

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.

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.

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