Noah Berlatsky

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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

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

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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

"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.

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

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