Noah Berlatsky

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

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.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

"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.

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