Noah Berlatsky

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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.

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

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

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

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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