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False: Lois Lane is a typical damsel in distress. True: Lois Lane doesn’t passively wait for her hero to save her and she is almost always in danger as a consequence of her efforts to expose the truth so that justice can prevail. Lois only requires rescue from situations that no ordinary or even extraordinary human being could be expected to escape single-handedly. She may be fictional, and may confront much more fantastical dangers, but Lois Lane is part of the sisterhood of journalists (some of which are profiled here) who risk their lives to report on things that matter. Lara Logan, a noteworthy journalist for CBS, recently made headlines for barely escaping with her life while reporting on the uprising against Mubarak’s regime in Egypt. After about a half an hour of a mob of men tearing at her body and raping her, she was reportedly rescued by a local woman dressed entirely in black religious robes and who had encouraged other women to close ranks around Logan long enough for her to be saved. Lara Logan—like another journalist with the initials “LL,” Lois Lane—and scores of other journalists—need saving because usually danger lies where the truth lies. When ordinary people do extraordinary things with their natural gifts and preternatural altruism, they inspire Superman. In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, a moving poster was created featuring a Superman in awe of ordinary heroes. Are firefighters who enter burning buildings to find survivors, but end up needing someone to help them out of the rubble, deserving of scorn and ridicule as mere damsels in distress? I don’t think so, and neither does Superman: The world is full of exceptional people. The people in the world who do kindnesses, or search for truth despite their lives being at risk. The engineers, the teachers, the doctors and adoptive parents, the scholars and the firemen, and yes, the journalists. People who risk everything for the sake of others, and those who simply try to help those whose need might be greater than their own. Those people inspire me, not the other way around. They’re my magnetic north, if you will. They’re the WHY of it all. […] The world needs them more than it needs me. […] They’re special. I think they were all meant to do great things. Maybe greater in their way than what I can do. (Strange Attractors, Gail Simone) Lois Lane is also no pushover. She fights back against her attackers as well as she can; yet no amount of cleverness or feistiness can save her from an array of metahuman attacks or even natural disasters. Lois Lane is a fighter, and she is tough. Others agree. Therefore, to dismiss Lois Lane as ill-suited for Superman based on the false notion that she’s nothing more than a damsel in distress is unfair to her and the multitude of individuals who put their lives on the line for the greater good. Clark Kent on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman said it best in his wedding vows to Lois: Clark: Lois, I have loved you from the moment I saw you. I love your humor, your passion, the way you just dive right in—even when you shouldn’t. Because you refuse to just watch the world. You demand that it be a better place, and because of you—it is.

False: Lois Lane is a typical damsel in distress.

True: Lois Lane doesn’t passively wait for her hero to save her and she is almost always in danger as a consequence of her efforts to expose the truth so that justice can prevail.

Lois only requires rescue from situations that no ordinary or even extraordinary human being could be expected to escape single-handedly. She may be fictional, and may confront much more fantastical dangers, but Lois Lane is part of the sisterhood of journalists (some of which are profiled here) who risk their lives to report on things that matter.

Lara Logan, a noteworthy journalist for CBS, recently made headlines for barely escaping with her life while reporting on the uprising against Mubarak’s regime in Egypt. After about a half an hour of a mob of men tearing at her body and raping her, she was reportedly rescued by a local woman dressed entirely in black religious robes and who had encouraged other women to close ranks around Logan long enough for her to be saved. Lara Logan—like another journalist with the initials “LL,” Lois Lane—and scores of other journalists—need saving because usually danger lies where the truth lies.

When ordinary people do extraordinary things with their natural gifts and preternatural altruism, they inspire Superman. In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, a moving poster was created featuring a Superman in awe of ordinary heroes. Are firefighters who enter burning buildings to find survivors, but end up needing someone to help them out of the rubble, deserving of scorn and ridicule as mere damsels in distress? I don’t think so, and neither does Superman:

The world is full of exceptional people. The people in the world who do kindnesses, or search for truth despite their lives being at risk. The engineers, the teachers, the doctors and adoptive parents, the scholars and the firemen, and yes, the journalists. People who risk everything for the sake of others, and those who simply try to help those whose need might be greater than their own. Those people inspire me, not the other way around. They’re my magnetic north, if you will. They’re the WHY of it all. […] The world needs them more than it needs me. […] They’re special. I think they were all meant to do great things. Maybe greater in their way than what I can do. (Strange Attractors, Gail Simone)

Lois Lane is also no pushover. She fights back against her attackers as well as she can; yet no amount of cleverness or feistiness can save her from an array of metahuman attacks or even natural disasters. Lois Lane is a fighter, and she is tough. Others agree.

Therefore, to dismiss Lois Lane as ill-suited for Superman based on the false notion that she’s nothing more than a damsel in distress is unfair to her and the multitude of individuals who put their lives on the line for the greater good. Clark Kent on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman said it best in his wedding vows to Lois:

Clark: Lois, I have loved you from the moment I saw you. I love your humor, your passion, the way you just dive right in—even when you shouldn’t. Because you refuse to just watch the world. You demand that it be a better place, and because of you—it is.

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    OH MY GOD YES. THIS ACCURATELY EXPLAINS WHY LOIS LANE IS MY HERO/ROLE MODEL.
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    ^THIS!^ Just read it!
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