All this gay crap is boring me to death.
Was Peppermint Patty gay?
Saw this movie this weekend with my kids. This is such BS. There was NO inferance to Merida being gay. This is RIDICULOUS. The girl just didn’t want an arranged marriage but was willing to do it to make the peace...
On Sunday, Entertainment Weekly’s Adam Markovitz used these details to draw a connection between Brave .... because Adam is so frickin gay it scares ya.
The author is a stupid jerk. Even the readers of Atlantic, who are presumably mostly libs, get it, but all the reviewer can say is, “Read my essay.”
Well, they did read his essay. And they rightly concluded that his argument is stupid.
And he says, in one of his responses, that Disney is mean to girls? Good grief. For the past several decades, Disney has made girls strong and boys weak. They have been totally into feminism. Nor was the earlier, classic Disney ever mean to girls.
The author is evidently a feminist-brainwashed wimp, if not a homo.
Jeepers.
‘Brave’ is a pretty good Pixar movie about an independent woman, her relationship with her mother, and her freedom.
In no way, shape, or form did the main character show any sign of attraction to women. In fact, in one very short instance, she showed brief interest in a very muscular warrior who was mistaken to be a third suitor.
The MSM needs a clue. Not everything has a homo in it.
Three times I’ve seen professed “lesbians” willing to “go straight” for the right man.
re: “What sick minds to be so obsessed with finding something homo in everything.”
I agree with you on this one for now.
I must admit after seeing one trailer of the film, I was wondering the same thing as the writer of the article - why? Because the “gay” rights issue has so permeated every aspect of our society lately that I wondered if Disney was pushing it into children’s films.
However, after viewing all the trailers, and, doing some background research on the film and its story I don’t believe that to be the case. Its just a story of a tom-boy young girl who doesn’t want to marry any of the three losers she’s supposed to pick from. The story is more about the mother-daughter conflict between the heroine and her mom - stuff that many female adolescents go through.
So, in this case, just take the story for what it is and don’t read anything into it - for now. Unless something I’ve missed comes out, I think calling this film a promotional for a gay children’s hero is unsubstantiated.
The one ‘sexuality’ issue that still makes me laugh is PETER PAN.
Not a guy, not a girl, not really any sex at all.
American Society is so funny. It’s the repression of ‘sex’ that causes much of the deviancy.
Parents don’t want to , or don’t know when to talk to their children about sex, which used to mean that we learned it from friends at school.
Nowadays, they learn it from their teachers, after school.
No woman wants to marry a loser. Not even a lesbian wants to marry a loser. I guarantee it.
So when Jerry Falwell said the purple Teletubby was gay, the media ridiculed him for looking for homosexuality in a kid’s show. But this counts as insightful analysis?
I agree. Just because a heroine is not interested in being married off to someone she doesn’t like/love... and is athletic/”tom-boyish” doesn’t make her a lesbian. In fact, if people hold the definition of a lesbian as a female who is independent/strong/self reliant/athletic etc... than a whole lot of female FReepers would fit that definition.
I don’t see why it would.
would it matter if it was real life... No!!!
Granted, given Pixar's track record, it would have been one beautifully produced cliche, but a cliche nonetheless.
Assuming through stereotypes that she's a lesbian is just as cliche these days.
This is ridiculous! I’ll take a Disney tomboy over an author like this any day!
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I saw the movie with my wife and kids this weekend and did not leave the movie with this impression at all. Weird how they have to try and ruin the movie. Go see it. It is a great movie and you will enjoy it.
