Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

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.

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