Alyssa Rosenberg « The Hooded Utilitarian

Do You Have a Right to Piracy?

It’s the wrong question.

November 18, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Empowerment
179 comments

Tween Horror

“The widespread and almost-always knee-jerk “feminist” contempt for Bella, both in itself and in comparison with “tough” female characters like Katniss and Buffy, is a tremendous intellectual and social failure.”

November 9, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Only One Can Wear the Venus Girdle
16 comments

Only One Can Wear the Venus Girdle: Who’s Your Daddy?

Wonder Woman is now the daughter of Zeus. Eight-year-olds across the globe express indifference.

Great Haircuts of Future Past: Stop Telling Me to Pay Attention to You, You Omnipotent Whiner

Writer Darko Macan starts off, first page, first issue, by presenting his hero as a distraction from a distraction from the main action.

July 13, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
3 comments

Of Wires and Weeds

The men of The Wire; the women of Weeds.

Dyspeptic Ouroboros: Alyssa Rosenberg on Pop Culture and Criticism

Popular culture, is a place where both creators and consumers work out real-life issues ranging from deciding whether to have sex before marriage to what would happen in a world with extremely large, well-equipped private armies.