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The Religious Right Is Really Anti #GiveElsaAGirlfriend
MAY 12, 2016 3:30 PM
MORGAN BAILA
Earlier this month, one girl kicked off a viral Twitter campaign centered around the popular 2013 Disney film Frozen. The girl, Alexis Isabel, is a senior in high school in Florida mission was to get Disney to consider giving Elsa a girlfriend in the film's sequel. She wrote a piece for MTV explaining why she thought Frozen was such an important film for young girls.
"This is why Elsa is so much more than a poster image — for me and for every girl who has and will watch Frozen," she wrote. "Giving young girls the chance to understand that a princess can love another princess the same way Cinderella loved her Prince Charming is vital to their development."
Isabel's hashtag, #GiveElsaAGirlfriend, spread like wildfire and received mostly positive feedback.
Until now. The religious right has responded to the proposition with its own hashtag —#CharmingPrinceForElsa. The community has previously said that the movie itself was really a thinly veiled satanic plot to turn kids gay.
http://www.refinery29.com/2016/05/110761/religious-rights-upset-over-frozen-elsa-girlfriend-petition
http://www.mtv.com/news/2875696/why-i-created-the-trending-giveelsaagirlfriend-hashtag/