Lois Lane

Clearly, I can't escape the reporters-in-pop-culture meme, because Bitch has the first of a two-part analysis of Lois Lane as a feminist up today. I'm not sure I'm convinced. The author argues, for example, that "Additionally, Lois may be the love interest, and is often in need of rescuing, but she’s no damsel in distress. Rather it’s her attempts at proving herself to her sexist male co-workers that lead her to the trouble she’s so famous for getting into." But if her attempts to do serious, hard work keep getting Lois in trouble, doesn't that suggest something fairly troubling about her actual competence? I kind of think to be a true feminist heroine, you have to have the guts to get yourself into trouble, and the skills to get yourself out of it.