On HU

Robert Stanley Martin with on-sale dates of comics in late 1947.

On how Hitchcock is the Birds.

Chris Gavaler on the superheroes of Patricia Highsmith.

Little reviews of Legion of Two and Sonic Youth.

Phillip Smith on the morality, or lack therof, of the Lego concentration camp set.

On why exploitation rape/revenge is better than Bergman’s Virgin Spring.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Playboy I wrote about PBR&B and condescending to R&B.

At the Guardian I wrote about She Shred magazine, and fighting the erasure of women guitarists.

At the New Republic I wrote about The Intern, and Hollywood’s gross celebration of working without pay.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—the GOP’s inability to pander to women.

—Sonic Youth and Chuck D’s Kool Thing, and whether white people can make non-racist music videos.

—the first black Marvel superhero (not the Black Panther)
 
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Celebrate! Happy Birthday is in the public domain!

David Brothers on the importance of being careful in writing about race. It’s painful for me, since I’m one of his big negative examples, but he’s right. I should have been more careful.

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Qiana Whitted on blues comics.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from mid 1947.

Chris Gavaler on discovering desire via Frazetta.

< href="https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2015/09/purity-culture-with-fangs/">Me on the film Teeth, and purity culture with fangs.

Me on spaghetti westerns, men, women, and guns.

Me on Andrew Breitbart and his eulogists.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Broadly I wrote about how criminalizing midwives hurts women and babies.

At Quartz I wrote about Amber Batts and how criminalization hurts sex workers.

At Playboy I wrote about how there is no evidence of a Ferguson Effect.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—how a Breitbart writer accidentally palled around with a terror suspect.

—how campaign finance reform isn’t a very exciting platform for Bernie Sanders.

At Ravishly I reviewed the Perfect Guy, which is pretty good if you think all men are evil and should die.

At the Reader I wrote a little review of the great Japanese goofball rockers Mugen Hoso.
 
Other Links

Jay Gwaltney on text sex games.

Fascinating interview with Timothy Snyder about the Holocaust and state institutions.

Sarah Nyberg on being a troll, and changing.

Molly Smith on decriminalizing sex work in Scotland.

Aaron Bady on Taylor Swift and colonial fantasy.
 

 
On HU

Featured Archive Post: Ng Suat Tong on Daredevil and Bob Dylan.

Robert Stanley Martin with on-sale dates of comics in early 1947.

Jimmy Johnson on how Narcos is an imperialist piece of crap.

Cord-Christian Casper on Enid Blyton, Spider-Man, and the illustion of change.

Osvaldo Oyola on an old advertisement and the history of sexism and insularity in gaming

Chris Gavaler on Superman and Leopole and Loeb.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

On Quarts I wrote about Playboy’s history with jazz.

On Splice Today I wrote about:

—Muppet violence, and why we don’t care.

—rock, gender, and the bands Novella, Insect Ark, and Sewer Goddess.

—great music I missed in 2014, including Polly A, Cretin, and more.

— Bobby Jindal. the saddest Republican candidate.
 
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Yasmin Nair on why Kim Davis doesn’t deserve to be in jail.

Noah Davis on making a living freelancing.

On the ongoing fight for Dyett high school.

 
On HU

From the archive: Anja Flower illustrates Wallace Stevens’ Earthy Anecdote.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from the end of 1946.

Charles Bell on Disney eating Star Wars.

Me on R. Crumb and how you can’t satirize racism by exaggerating it.

Chris Gavaler imagines a world in which all superhero movies aren’t the same.

Donovan Grant on Starfire’s supposedly sexy innocence.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian:

—I wrote about hating children and Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left. Good bye, Wes.

—I wrote about the joys of superheroes fighting superheroes.

—I contributed to an article about how hunger strikers in Chicago are trying to keep open Dyett high school.

At the New Republic I wrote about Miss Piggy and how we don’t think about domestic abuse of men.

At Playboy I interviewed erotic author Selena Kitt.

At Splice Today I wrote about Freddie deBoer and why the purity of one’s beliefs maybe doesn’t matter that much.

At Ravishly I talked about the raid on Rentboy.com, and how it shows anti-prostitution laws are based in prejudice.

At Broadly I wrote about She Shreds’ proposed SXSW panel on representations of women musicians.
 
Other Links

Sarah Nyberg on gamergate’s hate campaign against her. Reposting because said hate campaign has been intensified this week. I know Sarah only slightly, but she is a lovely person, and what is being done to her is evil.

Great piece on the mismanagement of Cooper’s Union (and how college presidents screw everyone else.)

C.T. May on how Ramesh Ponnuru is overconfident about Trump.

Katherine Cross on Ashley Madison and making up women for men.

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Jade Degrio and Desirae Embree on choice and agency in the Dollhouse.

Robert Stanley Martin with on-sale dates of comics in early 1946.

Chris Gavaler on the history of superheroes on film.

I wrote a bunch of posts about Quentin Tarantino and related matters:

Robert Rodriguez and diverse casting in Four Rooms.

Don’t whitewash Jackie Brown.

On fatherhood and Kill Bill’s crappy ending.

On why Tarantino shouldn’t make a romantic comedy.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Pacific Standard I wrote about how actresses used to be thought of as sex workers.

At Playboy I wrote about

—trafficking laws and how they hurt sex workers.

—the new romance set during the Holocaust and why it and Schindler’s List both suck.

At the Guardian I wrote about American Ultra and how you (yes you!) can be a superspy.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Mission Impossible, and hating imperialism via hating Tom Cruise.

—the Democratic passion for the white working class.

— On the Man From Uncle and nostalgia for the days when other countries mattered.

At the Reader I had a short review of Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, a great retro-70s country outfit.
 
Other Links

Jonathan Bernstein on how the party decides on the nominee.

Imani Gandy on Margaret Sanger’s complicated history with racism.

Annie Mok on queerness and Tove Jansson.

Nix 66 on telling off her phone sex client.