Noah Berlatsky

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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."

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

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

"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.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.