Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?
Read...Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.
Read...Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.
Read...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.
Read...A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.
Read...Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.
Read...Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.
Read...Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.
Read...Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.
Read...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
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