Ok, I've never seen a single episode of Supergirl, but what happened at Comic Con is a perfect example of how TV shows use queer baiting to attract a queer following, and then laugh at the simple thought of delivering what they're teasing their queer following with. SuperCorp was a ship that attracted a large queer audience to the show, (especially among the WLW audience, an extremely underrepresented group in the media) and the executives of the show laughed at the idea of making it a posibility. Many TV shows and movies do this to attract a queer following by exploiting the hopes and wishes of the queer people who just wanted representation in the shows they liked, but the TV and movie industry mostly never delivers. (A huge example of this is DeStiel from Supernatural.) My only real point here is that the TV and movie industry is using queer baiting to attract a larger following, but never plan on delivering something that they tease the community with so deliberately. The Supergirl incident at Comic Con is a great example of how TV shows and movies manipulate the minority population into watching them, and mock the community for simply wanting them to deliver on something they waved in the faces of the queer people they attracted. That's all.
