Is Elsa Really Gay? Why Should it Matter?!

Exactly! We need someone we can look up too.

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*pretends i’m not late*
ngl i didn’t give Elsa’s sexuality much thought until a friend watched Frozen 2 and called her a gay icon
after thinking a bit about it, though, i came to the conclusion that i see Elsa as aroace (no i’m totally not projecting wdym
but that’s the thing, it’ll always boil down to how we see it, to our interpretation
there’s nothing in canon that can tell us she’s gay (or aroace for that matter)
and as Shannii said, her struggles can be compared with A LOT of things, they’re not a “this or that exact kind of person experience”, it’s broad and can be interpreted in many ways

this is a small thing but

just a lil correction
when Shannii mentions Elsa could be ace i think she means aroace, given how ace people can still feel romantic attraction

that said
if Disney wants some representation, they need to step up their game
and man they need to step up their game hard

as people have said before, representation matters
it matters so much
so much that i, a “punk” who can’t express their feelings, broke down crying in the middle of a bookshop the first time i saw a book had a nonbinary character who went by they/them because in my 19 years (at the time) i had never seen that and i felt so seen and like woah i’ve got a right to exist wouldya look at that
Disney is a HUGE company, so if they gave us… a crumb… literally just a crumb… of proper representation?
queer kids would grow up feeling seen, they’d grow up knowing they’re not wrong to be how they are (which is why Jojo Siwa’s coming out has been so important these days, her music is mostly targeted at kids and well, not they can grow up with someone like her to look up to)

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You’re Aroace? My dumb@ss had a crush on my Aroace friend once.

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ehhh
i’m ace and… somewhere in the aro spectrum ksdbvhfbdv
dunno it’s hard for me to tell exactly?
bc like, i do like people? i’ve had crushes i think?
but then again i have a hard time differentiating romantic feelings from platonic ones so yeah

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Lol. I’m Pansexual.

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noice

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And someone I literally met a week ago has a crush on me, and I ghdkdntfvsjdnc

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is that good or not?
sorry i’m really not well versed in these things

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I don’t know. I really don’t.

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It wasn’t good. It was terrifying.

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Honestly if Elsa is gay I don’t think anyone should push it. My babies (my siblings) are 3 and 5 they really don’t need someone like Elsa, whom they love, to be gay and have it pushed in their faces. I get they want to be inclusive, but I don’t think that children need someone they look up to being gay and pushed in their faces. Finding your sexuality is something you need to find on your own.

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100% agreed.

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Thanks you :mending_heart:

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That statement is inherently problematic :confused: Even if Elsa was gay and your siblings love the character why would Elsa being gay cause an issue. In contrast, heteronormality is constantly pushed in the faces of children and depicted to be the only good and valid type of relationships.Even if it’s extremely toxic, it’s always shown to be a better option than a LGBTQ+ relationship. If Elsa was gay it would be good that kids look up to her and see her as a strong and different character. The idea that children shows shouldn’t portray LGBTQ+ characters that exist in real life is why so many children now struggle even worse as they get older attempting to discover sexuality. Gay characters should be present such as heterosexual characters and ace characters and all sorts of identities. It shouldn’t be this thing we hide from kids because we’re afraid all of them are going to start becoming gay themselves. And even if they did :face_with_raised_eyebrow: What would be wrong with that. Not having gay characters is more of a disservice than adding them. You’d be teaching kids that it is this a wrong, inappropriate thing when it’s simply having an attraction that’s different from the norm.

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Ngl the

Sounds very similar to the argument that parents make before banning their kids from watching Jojo Siwa, a positive role model for kids just due to the fact that she likes women.

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Oh, never heard that.
But like I think it’s awesome, just when they start pushing it is the problem.

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I mean define what do you mean by pushing :thinking:

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Like they’re pushing it. Witt commercials, keep mentioning it, almost like how someone would rub something in your face.

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Just let Elsa be Elsa.

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