Noah Berlatsky

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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

"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.

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.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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