Noah Berlatsky

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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.

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.