Noah Berlatsky

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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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.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

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.

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

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.