Noah Berlatsky

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

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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.

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

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.