Noah Berlatsky

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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

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

"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.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.