Noah Berlatsky

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

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 look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.