Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

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

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.