Miley Cyrus slams Supergirl, says title character is a woman

Miley Cyrus is taking issue with the CW seriesSupergirl,because she says having a show with a gender attached to it is "weird."

The pop singer tells Variety the actress who plays the title character, Melissa Benoist, is a woman, "not a little girl." She also questions, "what if you're a little boy who wants to be a girl so bad that this makes you feel bad?"

The topic came up when Variety asked Cyruswhy she thinks inequality still exists for women in Hollywood.

Entertainment Weekly reports Supergirlexecutive producer Andrew Kreisberg responded Tuesday that he stands by the show. He says since it was based on a pre-existing property called Supergirl,there was never any intention of calling it anything but that.

Kreisberg says they worked hard during the show's first season to address the discrepancy between the title and the character's age.

Cyrus also revealed to Variety that she identifies as pansexual, open to all sexual orientations or gender identities.

In the DC Comics universe, Supergirl and Superwoman are separate characters, and multiple people have used the titles over the decades.

In some stories Lois Lane, wife of Superman's alter-ego Clark Kent, gains superpowers of her own and takes on the mantle of Superwoman.

Benoistplays the best-known version ofSupergirl: KaraZor-El,Clark Kent's Kryptoniancousin. The character made her first comic book appearance in 1959.