Lois Lane’s Character Set a Few Unrealistic Standards for Female Journalist and Here’s Why:

Apsy Sury
2 min readMar 25, 2016

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First, how come on earth, she could afford that extra-shiny styled hair with our monthly salary? I can barely afford to buy food, let alone a hair conditioner.

Second, a flying boyfriend? Oh come on! It’s already hard for us to find a man who understands our lack of hygiene, due to our abysmal working environment. Lois Lane steps up the bar by having a flying boyfriend??.

Third, she made it look so easy to become ‘it girl’, get by the line, and got assigned to best story in history. The reality is, it would be almost impossible to have a kick-ass account every week. Even to get assigned to do our own story once a month would be fantastic. Believe me, a story idea that applicable in real life is hard to find. And sometimes, it did not go as planned.

Lastly, no matter how deep she’s in trouble, she’ll easily runoff from hot mess. Like when she was in the middle of Africa? With a gun pointed out to her head and survived? With demigod boyfriend and bat-inspired-superhero boss, you can practically be getting out from trouble anytime, anywhere.

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Apsy Sury

Former CNN Indonesia journalist and Singapore Girl. I enjoy journaling.