i love so much about supergirl. i love how it’s unashamedly feminist, i love that it’s lead character is a emotionally and physically incredibly strong woman who isn’t shown as weak because of her feelings, and i love that it’s telling an incredibly important story through alex and maggie.
but as a woman of colour, it’s hard to ignore the racism on the show and within the fandom. it’s hard to see people call the mon el/kara relationship “interracial”, and it’s even harder to see both the show and the fandom throw away the kara/james relationship in literally minutes. it’s not about ‘shipping’ - i wasn’t a dedicated shipper of kara/james, though i did enjoy their scenes together - it’s about a relationship between a man of colour and a white woman being thrown aside for the flimsiest reason possible - only for the show to completely backtrack on that ‘reason’ a few episodes later, with a bland, white guy. it’s about a fandom who consistently attacked kara and james’ relationship, but are embracing kara/mon el with open arms. it’s about a part of fandom that attacked the show before it’d even aired, just because the actor playing james is a black man. it’s about a show, in my opinion, blatantly disregarding and destroying an interracial relationship that had an entire season’s worth of development, because they’d much rather build up a white/white one instead.
it’s the struggle poc face time and time again in fandom: constantly we’re expected to ignore racism, or excuse it away. i can’t. there’s so much i love about supergirl, but there’s so much that makes it just like every other show out there: a huge disappointment.
