Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

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?

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.

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.