Noah Berlatsky

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

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

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."