{"id":128621,"date":"2015-11-06T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/critics-of-gays-seem-obsessed-about-gay-sex-even-when-there-isnt-any-disney-edition.html"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T16:14:57","slug":"critics-of-gays-seem-obsessed-about-gay-sex-even-when-there-isnt-any-disney-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/critics-of-gays-seem-obsessed-about-gay-sex-even-when-there-isnt-any-disney-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Critics of gays seem obsessed about gay sex even when there isn't any (Disney Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

References to the shenanigans of Kevin Swanson, the Religious Right figure who's currently being schmoozed with by GOP hopefuls Huckabee, Cruz, and Jindal (http:\/\/goo.gl\/sCxTtM<\/a>), led me to a rumor I'd managed to not hear before: that Disney's movie Frozen<\/i> is all about coming out as a Lesbian.<\/p>\n

To which some of you are saying, "Wha–?" and others of you are saying "Well, of course" (approvingly or disapprovingly).<\/p>\n

The article linked to below seems to be one of the more prominent writings to have taken that theory and pounced on it as a proof that Disney is out to corrupt our kids. I poured through it looking for some actual concrete indications of why this was seen as a thing. Had I missed something watching the film? A hidden song, a coy reference, a rainbow flag over the ice palace, a guest appearance by Ellen, something concrete?<\/i><\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, Elsa is being accused of being a Lesbian because she:<\/p>\n

1. Is rebellious
2. Is desperately hiding a secret that she fears will turn others against her
3. Has no boyfriend<\/p>\n

This last one seems to be the most important. If Elsa doesn't have a boyfriend, then obviously she's gay.<\/i><\/p>\n

Wha–?<\/p>\n

So here's a cool thing about a good story: you can map your own feelings and experiences and meaning into it. <\/p>\n

He o’er the words of Shakespeare<\/i>
A hundred hours spent;<\/i>
And found a million meanings<\/i>
That Shakespeare never meant.<\/i>
— Tom Pease<\/p>\n

So some people watch Gone with the Wind<\/i> and empathize with Ashley. Others picture themselves as Rhett Buttler. Still others follow along with Scarlett O'Hara — maybe about their own pursuit of love, maybe about times when they were hungry, maybe about a setback their family had when growing up, or maybe about that crazy ex-girlfriend they once had.<\/p>\n

No, neither the book nor the movie was written about them.<\/i> But the human experience is many-splendored, and there are ways to relate to each of the characters as aspects of one's own life, even if those aspects are different from those of the person in the next seat.<\/p>\n

Could<\/i> Elsa be a Lesbian? No particular reason why not. Can<\/i> her experiences be taken as a metaphor in some fashion for the gay experience? I guess so. Apparently so, in fact, since both gay critics and actual gay people have read that meaning into it.<\/p>\n

Is Frozen<\/i> some sort of not-so-cryptic advancing of the "Gay Agenda" by Disney? Um … seems sort of unlikely.<\/p>\n

I mean, turn it around. Is the theme of keeping a secret about yourself from others applicable in more than just a homosexual way? Is feeling rejected by your family and friends an experience only gay people go through? Do straight teens ever feel constrained by expectations and disapproval, and then break through into a moment of rebellion and independence where they blossom into who they were meant to be?<\/p>\n

A look at the movies of the last, oh, six or seven decades<\/i> argues otherwise.<\/p>\n

Heck, I can look at Frozen<\/i> and think of how I was unpopular as a teen, involved in goofy, geeky stuff, but how I eventually decided, "To heck with the high school social conventions as to what is acceptable stuff to be involved in: I'm a Trekkie and I'm proud of it! Let it go!"<\/p>\n

#IAmElsa<\/a> in modern terms.<\/p>\n

I suspect a lot of people can relate to that story arc in their own lives without it touching on their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

But Elsa doesn't have a boyfriend!<\/i><\/p>\n

That's the clincher argument. Read it again. Elsa must be gay because she doesn't have a boyfriend.<\/i><\/p>\n

Not that she has a girlfriend. Or any hint of a girlfriend. Or any hint that she's ogling any girls. But she doesn't have a boyfriend, so something must be wrong.<\/i><\/p>\n

Never mind that there's plenty of heterosexual relationship shenanigans going on with her sister.<\/i> It's not like there's a lack of boys in the movie (good, bad, and indifferent), or that the only hints of romance we see are hot girl-on-girl action. There's none of that.<\/p>\n

No, Elsa — who is busy dealing with a whole mess of problems and conflicts and difficulties in her one-half<\/i> of the movie — doesn't have a boyfriend. What's wrong with her?<\/i><\/p>\n

Yeah, that sounds more like several dozen other<\/i> movies over the last several decades. "Honey, look at you, why are you so obsessed with your career \/ music \/ vocation — you want to grow up an old maid? Find a boy!" <\/p>\n

Because it seems the only place a woman can find true fulfillment in her life, career, and super-powers is by being swept off her feet by a man. And if she isn't — well, she must be waiting to be swept off her feet by a woman.<\/i> QED!<\/p>\n

Except, of course, that's absurd.<\/p>\n

Could Elsa be gay? Sure. There's no reason to think she isn't (and no reason to think she is). But the movie is not about Elsa's romantic life, any more than Finding Nemo<\/i> is about finding Nemo a girlfriend.<\/i><\/p>\n

If some Lesbians find Elsa a role model or inspiration, more power to them — again, that's the power of storytelling. But I really don't think that means it was the specific goal of Disney in producing the movie, whether you think such a goal is a laudable aspiration or a nefarious plot. It seems to me that interpreting a non-romance-driven female protagonist as some sort of conspiracy to promote the "Gay Agenda" says more about one's obsession with sex than about the character in question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nFrozen: Not Gonna “Let It Go” When Movie Advocates Gay Agenda<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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References to the shenanigans of Kevin Swanson, the Religious Right figure who's currently being schmoozed with by GOP hopefuls Huckabee, Cruz, and Jindal (http:\/\/goo.gl\/sCxTtM), led me to a rumor I'd managed to not hear before: that Disney's movie Frozen is all about coming out as a Lesbian. 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