Noah Berlatsky

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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

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.

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

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

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

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