Supergirl's Box-Office Slump Reflects Film Quality, Not Audience Hostility to Female Heroes

The debate over why certain films underperform shapes how studios greenlight future projects and whether legitimate creative criticism gets conflated with bias—mattering to both the industry and public discourse on merit versus identity.
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