Noah Berlatsky

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.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

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.

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?

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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