Noah Berlatsky

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

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.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.