Noah Berlatsky

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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.

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

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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?