More than that even, at the end, she gets the clan leaders to agree that a suitor has to win her heart before he should try to win her hand. She wasn't rejecting the suitors in and of themselves, she was rejecting the idea of being pushed into marriage before she was ready and to have no say in which suitor she should pick.
Merida is not some kind of lesbian icon; she far more resembles self-sufficient (and normal) conservative women.
re: “Merida is not some kind of lesbian icon; she far more resembles self-sufficient (and normal) conservative women.”
Totally agree.