Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.
Read...It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.
Read...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.
Read...Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.
Read...C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.
Read..."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.
Read...In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.
Read...Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?
Read...Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.
Read...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.
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