{"id":907404,"date":"2026-07-02T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/907404\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:38:22","slug":"supergirl-fans-blame-men-for-the-movies-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/907404\/","title":{"rendered":"Supergirl Fans Blame Men For The Movie\u2019s Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Chris Snellgrove<\/a>
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After the success of last year\u2019s Superman, hopes were high for Supergirl. In fact, they were up, up, and away! This movie was going to flesh out the DCU while adding a strong, independent female character to this cinematic universe. Had the movie been successful, it would have been lauded as proof that the general moviegoing public is ready for a new kind of hero and a new kind of cinematic universe. Unfortunately, the movie was dead on arrival, leaving fans and critics alike to ask the same question: \u201cwhat the heck happened here?\u201d Some think they have the answer: men happened, damn it!<\/p>\n

Specifically, there is a growing narrative among Supergirl<\/a> fans that the movie is great and that its bad reputation is due to woman-hating misogynists. This is a comforting narrative, of course, allowing someone to believe that anyone who hates their favorite media must 1) Have bad taste, and 2) Be a bad person. However, you don\u2019t need X-ray vision to see just how weak and even dangerous this narrative really is. Why dangerous? Simple: if creators like DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn<\/a> start blaming all their failures on invisible enemies, then these superhero movies will never, ever get any better.<\/p>\n

A Familiar Narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of the emerging fan narratives surrounding Supergirl shouldn\u2019t surprise you, especially if you\u2019ve been paying attention for the last decade or so (more on this very soon). Plenty of fans really love the movie, and they can\u2019t understand how it ended up \u201crotten\u201d on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and made so little money in its opening weekend. Some of those superfans decided that the only logical conclusion was misogyny. That is, they believe that men who would normally turn up for a superhero movie stayed home and that male influencers killed the chance for bad word-of-mouth by loudly complaining about the movie online.<\/p>\n

This narrative doesn\u2019t make sense once you examine it, of course. For one thing, if misogyny killed Supergirl, it would reflect in the demographics, leaving more women seeing it than men. That didn\u2019t happen, though: 59 percent of the audience was men and only 41 percent was women, indicating that the ladies didn\u2019t show up in the same numbers as they did for, say, Captain Marvel<\/a> and Wonder Woman. Men didn\u2019t show up in the same numbers, either, revealing a hard truth: Supergirl just wasn\u2019t very popular. There was no misogynist conspiracy to keep the masses from seeing it. Rather, the movie\u2019s marketing department did that all on its own.<\/p>\n

Who Ya Gonna Blame?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now, the idea that misogynists sunk Supergirl didn\u2019t come out of nowhere. You can basically throw a rock and hit some weird, right-wing influencer offering hot takes on why the film failed. The Critical Drinker, for example, predictably declared that most female-led superhero movies are doomed to poor box office. Megyn Kelly called Supergirl star Milly Alcock \u201cvery weirdly small\u201d and \u201cloathsome.\u201d Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld clutched their pearls about a Supergirl who is both \u201cwoke\u201d and \u201cbisexual.\u201d Matt Walsh lamented how our \u201cfemale-centric society\u201d produced the \u201ccomedically absurd premise\u201d of \u201csome 105-pound girlboss action hero.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Supergirl fans blaming misogyny on the film\u2019s failures are looking at narratives like these and believing this toxicity explains everything. But they aren\u2019t considering something deceptively simple: these guys were always<\/strong> going to make these exact same complaints. Prominent conservatives were never<\/strong> going to give a glowing review to a movie about an illegal immigrant who is stronger than almost any male in the entire universe. Such critics made the same critiques of Captain Marvel<\/a>, which earned over a billion dollars. For the haters whose misogynistic reviews were likely written long before the premiere, Supergirl bombing was just the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

In short, Supergirl fans who blame the movie\u2019s failure on misogyny because of these comments are putting the cart before the horse. These reviews didn\u2019t keep people from seeing the movie. By the time they went live, most fans had decided whether or not to plonk down a small fortune to see it on opening weekend. Supergirl was doomed long before these conservative voices spoke out, and in a bit of irony, trying to blame them for the movie\u2019s failure may doom this franchise.<\/p>\n

Apathy Is The Real Enemy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What do Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, Star Trek<\/a>: Discovery, and Supergirl all have in common? Simple: they all had major flaws and fans who thought you weren\u2019t allowed to notice the flaws. If you hated Ghostbusters<\/a> for its poor script and bad improv, fans would argue that you simply hated women. If you hated Discovery for Michael Burnham\u2019s emotional overreactions, fans would argue that you simply hated women. Now, if you hate Supergirl for its bad script and bland direction, fans will argue (you guessed it!) that you simply hate women. It\u2019s a narrative producers encourage because it shifts the blame from creators to a bunch of nameless incels.<\/p>\n

However, buying into this narrative actually hurts<\/strong> the franchises in a tangible way. Once fans\u00a0 start blaming invisible targets (\u201cthose chuds just weren\u2019t ready for the ultimate girlboss!!1!!\u201d), they let the actual culprits (such as bad writers and directors) off the hook. Like, if you want future DCU movies to be better, it\u2019s important to figure out why audiences were so \u201cmeh\u201d on Supergirl in the first place. But when fans blame other fans, studios just keep cranking out the same crappy movies filled with the same preventable mistakes. Time to break the cycle, be honest about Supergirl\u2019s flaws, and encourage DC<\/a> Studios to make better films.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

If that doesn\u2019t work, there\u2019s always Plan B: pretending that the only reason fans ever complain about superhero slop is because we hate women!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Chris Snellgrove | Published 28 seconds ago After the success of last year\u2019s Superman, hopes were high…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":907405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[146350,32720,955,171,2193,367249,71353,956,367250,27871,119563,53,367251,367252,26432,67,132,68,170865],"class_list":["post-907404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-captain-marvel","tag-dc","tag-dcu","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-ghostbusters-answer-the-call","tag-greg-gutfeld","tag-james-gunn","tag-jesse-waters","tag-matt-walsh","tag-milly-alcock","tag-movies","tag-star-trek-discovery","tag-supergirl-2026","tag-superman-2025","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wonder-woman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116850191067168935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}