Noah Berlatsky

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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.

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

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

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

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

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.