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When Maggie Sawyer left Supergirl, Chyler herself had to tweet out a help line to the Trevor project, and let’s face it, when you look at the header they have on Twitter - it says it all.
With Supercorp fans now being
continually baited, but worst yet, finding themselves being attacked by some who say they’re in the industry (most recently, disagreements with the writer J. Holtham on how he contradicted himself & invalidated Supercorp, when we could show he’d liked a tweet over Supercorp
previously,) to then others he knows not only joining in, but being outright homophobic, misogynistic and sexual in content towards Supercorp fans, we have a problem. Why? Because a day later, we get a Tweet going out, from an affiliate press media company, who use Supercorp to
not only promote the tweet, but hashtag it.
In the meantime, I personally know or have seen at least 3 young, vulnerable LGBTQ Supercorp fans who are struggling because they feel not only invalidated as people, but have suffered being attacked or worry they will be attacked,
simply for who they are & are fans of.
We’ve had words such as delusional, retards, terrorists & more used against us. These can be shown via screen captures. David Harewood even replied to the tweet using the term retard with a laughing emoji as well as liking it. Forgetting
the Supercorp aspect of it, how someone who claims to be an advocate for mental health feels it is acceptable to validate that term, I can’t understand.
In regards the vulnerable fans I know of, 1 isn’t out of the closet irl, so having these events continually go on around them
is hurting them, because they feel they don’t even have a safe space online.
Queerbaiting has real & harmful consequences for LGBTQ fans.
Supergirl is now queerbaiting by its very definition.
We can pull up example after example why this is.
Do you really - especially as
Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schecter are part of the LGBTQ community - want your legacy on a show to be not just the biggest example of queerbaiting there is, but having vulnerable, often young, LGBTQ viewers to be so invalidated that support via The Trevor project has to be tweeted
out, not just historically by Chyler, but now by other fans to Supercorp fans today!
Really?
It is needed twice because of the same program!? One that claims to be LGBTQ inclusive & supportive?
The 100 is still being vilified over Clexa, but it also pushed a real and much
needed shift in how Bury your Gays trope was harmful. The Lexa pledge is the outcome.
Do we need to now have yet another fandom use their power on social media to create the Supercorp pledge over queerbaiting?
Or are you actually going to recognise the seriously harmful practice
you are generating by using Supercorp to promote your show if you don’t plan on delivering it?
Do you need reminding just how much positive engagement comes about when Supercorp fans saw Kara and Lena reuniting in 5.19, after what had become a frankly disastrous season for you.
If you don’t plan on making Supercorp canon, the irrefutable fact is, you are placing vulnerable marginalised people in harms way.
That is on you!
Decision time is now upon you. Make or break. Yes or no. Fans have had enough.
#Supergirl #Supercorp
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