{"id":2616,"date":"2020-08-04T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T17:08:50","slug":"446-lois-the-little-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/446-lois-the-little-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"446 &#8211; Lois, the Little Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lois-the-little-idiot.png\" alt=\"A savage Superman from Superman #65, May 1950\" class=\"wp-image-2617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lois-the-little-idiot.png 530w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lois-the-little-idiot-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><figcaption>A savage Superman from Superman #65, May 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/433-heat-vision-redux\/\">lamented in the past<\/a> how Lois Lane was gradually turned from a smart, fiery, independent career woman into a swooning, vapid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/355-superman-distant-suns\/\">manipulative one-note character<\/a> before.  This causes Superman to develop the affectionate nickname of &#8220;little idiot&#8221;, as in this panel from &#8220;Superman&#8217;s Sweetheart&#8221;, a story in Superman #65 (May 1950).  The women&#8217;s lib movement can&#8217;t come fast enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lamented in the past how Lois Lane was gradually turned from a smart, fiery, independent career woman into a swooning, vapid, manipulative one-note character before. This causes Superman to develop the affectionate nickname of &#8220;little idiot&#8221;, as in this panel from &#8220;Superman&#8217;s Sweetheart&#8221;, a story in Superman #65 (May 1950). The women&#8217;s lib movement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,14,209,11,43],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-458","tag-dc","tag-feminism","tag-lois-lane","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}