Noah Berlatsky

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

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

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

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

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

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...