Noah Berlatsky

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.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

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.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.