Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

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

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

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.