Noah Berlatsky

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.