About That Arranged Marriage
The story makes it fairly clear that Merida’s choices of suitors all suck. One’s borderline mentally challenged, one’s an immature ego case, and one’s an incomprehensible dope that not even his own father understands. Gee, with options like that, we can’t imagine why she isn’t excited.
It’s Simply Not a Movie With Any Real Sexuality
There are the occasional gags about the king and the queen still being…ahem…active that will fly right over the heads of the kids. But beyond that, this is not a very randy world.
Furthermore, sure, Merida could be a lesbian, but more importantly, for all her martial skill, she’s still a child. She’s not yet a sexual person. She’s clearly not yet interested in dating, period, forget figuring out which gender she wants to date. The entire movie hinges on Merida growing up enough to accept that not everything goes her way and that she’s responsible for her own actions and the chaos they cause.
So, let’s stop trying to shove the poor girl in a box. She gets enough of that from her mom.
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I liked the movie quite a bit too, and had no idea this had become a thing. Guess I just wasn’t thinking about sex enough during the kids’ cartoon.
Yeah, part of me wonders whether amid all the high-toned debate in the Atlantic and the New Yorker anybody realizes this comes off an awful lot like they want to molest a thirteen-year-old.
Also if you want to read sexy stuff into Disney movies there’re much better candidates than Brave. I mean, what was going on in Snow White? There’s more evidence for Snow White being into dwarf orgies than there is for the main character from Brave being a lesbian. Now *that’s* groundbreaking.
Agreed. Although if we’re talking about sexy stuff into Disney movies, it’s pretty impossible to listen to “A Whole New World” and not read that as Aladdin teaching Jasmine about the wonders of sex.
Sing it with me kids!
There’s no drama like EDRAMA!
Nice post Dan
Why do people still think like this? Really, girls who like sports and “guy stuff” and/or aren’t desperate to be married ARE NOT UNCOMMON. It’s normal. For all sorts of girls.
And I reeeeeaaaally need to see this movie. I’m excited that there’s finally a heroine for my little Pixar-obsessed niece.
People used to think it was uncommon, like 1/10, or something like that. But I heard it’s more like 1/4. And, in today’s world, lesbians do have the right to marry in many parts of the world, so they don’t have to live in solitude anymore.
My response: Stop trying to sex up kid movies!
Pixar has always been pretty good at creating strong female characters (Elastigirl and EVE immediately come to mind). And seriously, the whole “Strong Heroine=Totally a Lesbian” argument has got to stop (for example, see Wonder Woman). It’s insulting to straight women that a requirement of being straight is to be dependent on a male counterpart.
Or just that they can’t kick ass. Honestly, of the lesbians and straight women I know, I could probably take a higher percentage of the lesbians in a fight.
Want an easy conclusion to an asinine argument: The red-headed slut checked out the big steroid muscle dude hardcore when she thought he was one of the princes. Boom! Argument solved. Now shut the fuck up and let’s concentrate on something that matters America.
“what box to shove her into ”
huhuhuhuhu
Sorry, couldn’t help myself
But, yes, your point is well taken. Tropes like “tom boy” and “rebellious child” are not ground breaking concepts. And its not a stretch to think she’s still in her “boys are icky” stage.
Yeah, there’s that, too.
So I guess they all missed the scene where she thought that huge guy with the rippling muscles was one of the suitors only to realize he was blocking the view of the retard? She sat up and paid attention, only to be deflated.