Noah Berlatsky
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A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.
Read...David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.
Read...Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.
Read...It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.
Read...A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.
Read...Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.
Read...While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.
Read...For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.
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