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.

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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

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

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.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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.

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