Noah Berlatsky

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

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

"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.

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.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.