Reflection and Analysis

11/15/19 - Elsa

I don't think Disney should make Elsa a lesbian. This is something I've thought about for awhile now, but I think ultimately this is a bad idea. Of course, some will think I'm against representation or I believe LGBT characters shouldn't be in children's media.

I think one of the first things which springs to mind regarding this issue comes down to the fact I came to the realization that if Disney were to make Elsa lesbian I would always wonder if this was done to appease a certain group of people and not because this narratively made sense for the character. It wouldn't matter how well they pulled off said relationship. This is one of the reasons I support making an entirely new princess instead.

The second thin which comes to mind is the fact Elsa's already fallen in love with a guy. It doesn't matter that said guy betrayed her and broke her heart. The fact remains she did in fact fall in love with the guy. One of the ways entertainment mishandles LGBT characters is to take a character who in canon showed an interest in only the opposite sex and switch them into liking only the same sex.

Of course, they could address this if they decided to give Elsa a girlfriend by having her discuss the fact, she did indeed fall in love a guy, but not brush her feelings aside for him simply because he was a villain and broke her heart. Seriously, I don't want the narrative to treat her feelings as if they weren't real as that's bad writing. However, the fact she did fall in love with a guy means she can't be a lesbian. She'd in the very least be bisexual, if not pansexual or asexual.

This brings us right to the next problem – I don't think this is what those who are advocating Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend really want. They specifically want her to be a lesbian despite the fact this is already impossible given the narrative of the first movie. I'd like to say people were tired of bi-erasure, but there are still people who don't believe bi-sexual people exist. Those who are bi-sexual are considered as going through a phase or faking it.

An additional problem is the push by SJW individuals.

Of course, one of the things I see people saying in defense of the SJW label is that those using said label are homophobic. As such, I wish to make it clear I'm not labeling every person in a minority group who wants representation as an SJW. In this circumstance an SJW is someone who cares far more about presenting their political message – also known as Author Tract – than they do the actual narrative.

One such movie which suffered is actually another Disney work, the 2018 Wrinkle in Time movie. The producer/director changed said character into a person of color. This change actually would make sense if the producer/director was aiming for emphasizing one of the elements from the original story – the importance of being yourself. Instead, the narrative refocused on presenting the main character as a victim and how she needed to be loved by people for her to accept herself, whereas in the original it was her brother who was the victim of bullying and the narrative was about her letting him know he was loved.

More specifically, as a woman I'm really tired of these narratives where women are weak and need something other than their own power to overcome their struggles. I'm also really tired of narratives where men are shown in a negative light and females can't do anything wrong because of girl power. This narrative is the narrative SJW are pushing for, but what they also insist all females want, yet this tied into the fact they think all men are evil and our social structure is completely out to get women.

However, the SWJ whose also LGBT will take this further by insisting everything needs LGBT content, but they won't be satisfied until everybody is putting LGBT characters into their works. However, they also argue that writers can't get an LGBT character right without having someone LGBT on the staff, which means everybody must hire at least one LGBT person, but they'd prefer more than one person because people wouldn't be ganging up on them. Of course, the narratives they really prefer are narratives where most of the characters are LGBT.