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Supergirl Actress Pre-Attacks Sexist Fans?

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

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4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Supergirl actress Milly Alcock is responding to imaginary backlash from fans for “simply existing as a woman,” saying that sexist and misogynist moviegoers have a “weird ownership of women’s bodies.” We’ve seen this cycle before—let’s talk about it. 


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0:00.0

Supergirl star Millie Alcock is getting ahead of fictitious backlash that she may or may not receive for this upcoming Supergirl film by, I guess, blaming misogyny and patriarchy.

0:10.0

She says that simply existing as a woman in a franchise like this means that you will face backlash.

0:15.0

Let's talk about it.

0:16.0

Yeah, you better.

0:23.3

Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe.

0:25.9

Today we're going to be talking about Millie Alcock of Supergirls stardom.

0:29.6

But you may have seen her before in HBO's House of the Dragons.

0:32.8

She played a Reneura, a young Reneer at the very least.

0:36.4

Now, back in that time, she had comments

0:38.3

about patriarchy and misogyny saying that men who are the predominant watchers of this show

0:43.2

were pitting her and another female co-star, or at least their storylines against one another. And

0:48.5

that was a product of patriarchy that was also displayed in the show. She called that ironic. Now we're

0:54.0

getting another, I guess,

0:55.0

patriarchy, misogyny claim from her before the movie is even out here with Supergirl.

1:01.0

This happened in a recent Vanity Fair interview, and I'm going to get into the quote here.

1:04.0

She says, quote, it definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on.

1:10.0

We've become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women's bodies.

1:14.3

I can't really stop them.

1:15.5

I can only be myself.

1:17.6

It's such a weird point to focus, I think, when you're about to be the star of an upcoming DC superhero film,

1:23.8

to be talking about patriarchy, talking about the ownership of women's bodies and saying

1:28.3

that you're going to receive backlash for something you have not yet received backlash for.

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