Even though I agree that the existence of a movie for young girls in which romance is completely absent is a good and rare thing itself. I’m not really okay with all the hand-wringing over how it’s problematic to interpret this Merrida as a lesbian. It seems particularly obnoxious to tag a post “queer” when [...]

I totally agree.

I think it’s especially annoying considering how often the most strident “abnormal” are from upper-class bohemian queer meccas and are defining “normal” and bad as having the culture of the less cool, more working-class, more rural places.

Lesbian shouldn’t be treated like a synonym for hip.