Noah Berlatsky

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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?