Noah Berlatsky

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

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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

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

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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

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

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.