Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.
Read...Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?
Read...There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.
Read...These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.
Read...If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.
Read...The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.
Read...Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.
Read...Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.
Read...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.
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