Noah Berlatsky

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.