What Elsa Means To Me

It’s kind of disturbing to hear people who, when talking about the great news that LeFou in the live action Beauty and the Beast is going to be openly Gay (Huzzah!), conflate that with Elsa of Frozen as a repressed Lesbian because I think they fundamentally misunderstand the Elsa character.

Look, there is nothing wrong with being Gay or Lesbian, or Bi or Transexual. Whatever floats your boat. To the extent I have sexuality at all it’s totally cis-male, I’m only attracted to females (who I think are superior in every respect) and in any event it’s conceptually icky though if you can let down your defenses long enough to be intimate with another human being it can be fun for a moment, followed by years of guilt and recrimination, profound feelings of inadequacy, and psychotherapy.

Elsa’s defining characteristic is that she doesn’t interact with anybody except her sister (to a limited degree) so if you take the position she’s a closeted lesbian you’re talking lesbian incest and once again, I’m the least suited person in the world to pass judgement on that (there is a category on Pornhub however if it excites you). I don’t think her problems are sexual at all

Elsa is Autistic, or at least has Aspberger’s.

Consider- she is brilliant to the point of enormous and dangerous power to hurt those around her which she does in response to overstimulation. The seminal act is to freeze her sister, whom she loves in a sibling fashion, to death.

Yeah, magical Trolls. No harm, no foul?

Wrong. In her mind she is a monster, a murdering sibling killer, and so in response she shuts herself off from all human contact (except Anna, who is the real heroine and persists). This estrangement from Anna causes it’s own harm which Elsa rationalizes as better a slow death than a quick one.

Urges, what can they be in comparison? I doubt very much Elsa has advanced much beyond her childhood self emotionally no matter her chronological age or level of control over her powers. What else are you going to do to amuse yourself? I doubt very much that she had a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves tucked under the mattress when she shut herself in.

Elsa is very much undefined sexually because of the nature of her psychosis. She might have a variety of encounters in her future of an exploratory nature but I suspect instead that unless she succumbs to societal pressure she’ll spend the bulk of her life learning to control her emotions, act socially (as in put on the pretense of socializing while still being very much isolated), and spend a lot of time looking for someone she can trust as much as her sister.

Women actually have the inside track on that since they listen better.

You may think I have some personal knowledge of what it is to be ‘special’. I learned in a hard school and my mask fits well enough.