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Does It Matter If the Heroine of 'Brave' Is Gay?
The Atlantic ^ | June 26, 2012 | Chris Heller

Posted on 06/26/2012 8:10:11 AM PDT by C19fan

Merida, the heroine of Pixar's Brave, doesn't want to marry. Not now, she repeatedly tells her mother, Queen Elinor, and perhaps not ever. Faced with the prospect of being forced to wed one of a trio of loutish suitors, she runs away from home in search of some way to change the "fate" she was born into. That's the radical thing about Brave: Merida is a Disney princess who doesn't want a prince.

She also happens to be a tomboy, a tough and sporty archer who would rather be riding her horse than wearing a dress. On Sunday, Entertainment Weekly's Adam Markovitz used these details to draw a connection between Brave—which racked up $66 million over the weekend—and another event in the news:

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: brave; homos; homosexualagenda; movies; pixar
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What sick minds to be so obsessed with finding something homo in everything. I guess Elizabeth I is a candidate to be a lesbo too.
1 posted on 06/26/2012 8:10:17 AM PDT by C19fan
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Who would think that such a tiny sliver of society could make so much noise and be so tedious at the same time?

All this gay crap is boring me to death.

2 posted on 06/26/2012 8:14:14 AM PDT by skeeter
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Was Peppermint Patty gay?


3 posted on 06/26/2012 8:16:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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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...


4 posted on 06/26/2012 8:18:39 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Under Romney's Governorship, MA. was the birthplace of gay marriage & socialized medicine in America)
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The girl just didn’t want an arranged marriage but was willing to do it to make the peace...

Sounds like "Beauty and the Beast", where Belle didn't want anything to do with Gaston.

5 posted on 06/26/2012 8:21:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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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.


6 posted on 06/26/2012 8:23:38 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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Ok, thanks for the info. Reviews from Freepers help out.


7 posted on 06/26/2012 8:24:01 AM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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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.


8 posted on 06/26/2012 8:25:34 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I don't want to get married. I tried it for 13 yrs and now I am free. Never want to consider being married, don't want or need a man in my life although a companion for dinner now and then would be nice. Am I gay. I should think NOT. Any princess that doesn't want to marry a lout or any man doesn't constitute being gay. There's a lot to be said about freedom and independence. Even though the gay issue is shoved down our throats and put in our faces, in this case, it's the princess just isn't interested in marriage or a relationship at that time. No big deal. Relax. There are bigger fish to fry.
9 posted on 06/26/2012 8:26:16 AM PDT by Bitsy
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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.


10 posted on 06/26/2012 8:28:06 AM PDT by kidd
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Three times I’ve seen professed “lesbians” willing to “go straight” for the right man.


11 posted on 06/26/2012 8:28:42 AM PDT by ROTB (FReepmail me if you want to join a team seeking the LORD for a Christian revival now in the USA.)
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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.


12 posted on 06/26/2012 8:29:09 AM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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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.


13 posted on 06/26/2012 8:31:32 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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No woman wants to marry a loser. Not even a lesbian wants to marry a loser. I guarantee it.


14 posted on 06/26/2012 8:31:42 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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Was “Cow Patty” gay?


15 posted on 06/26/2012 8:32:50 AM PDT by Terry Mross ( To all my kin: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
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We took the kids to Brave this weekend also. Did not even occur to me she was gay..but I did think she was to young to get married...told my daughter she should wait till she gets as old as me.:)
16 posted on 06/26/2012 8:33:35 AM PDT by montanajoe
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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?


17 posted on 06/26/2012 8:34:03 AM PDT by subaru
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The MSM needs a clue. Not everything has a homo in it.

Yeah. Most of them are in the MSM.

18 posted on 06/26/2012 8:34:42 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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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.

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.

19 posted on 06/26/2012 8:39:28 AM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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All this gay crap is boring me to death.

Isn't AIDS defined as 'boring someone to death' ?

"OMG, I'm gay."

20 posted on 06/26/2012 8:39:34 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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