Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

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

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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?

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

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.