Maybe you guys didn’t notice this before, but Heidi Montag is a feminist hero, or at least that’s what the NY Times think. In a review of The Hills’ third season, Ginia Bellafante depicts the plasticized Heidi as someone Gloria Allred would be proud of:

Defying our expectations, Heidi has emerged as a kind of feminist hero this season, climbing her way to a bigger position at the event-planning company where she orchestrates Nascar parties, and refusing to acquiesce to the demands of her fiancé, Spencer, that she get herself home on time. Her career-mindedness sets their relationship off course. Heidi identifies the problem with no name: a boyfriend who sits around an apartment decorated to look like an ’80s video arcade while trying to deny Heidi a real wedding with the glory of registering. Her groundswell of self-assertion begins when he insists on eloping, prompting Heidi to declare, “This isn’t, like, Spencer’s relationship and you decide what we do.”

The full-on joyous Oprah-fication of Heidi culminates with the show’s return and gives “The Hills” a new momentum. After taking a break from Spencer at her parents’ modest house in Crested Butte, Colo., Heidi returns to Los Angeles to kick him out and chastises him for taking her flat-screen TV with him. How proud Gloria Allred would be.

I’m not even sure Heidi’s own mom is proud of her.

Without trying to analyze whether there is a hidden feminist inside Heidi’s boobs, I think it’s fair to say she’s as annoying as a feminist would be.