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.

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

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.