Noah Berlatsky

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.