Elsa can be distant to the people she loves, she has trouble accepting help, and she fails to recognize her own limitations. These strong female characters certainly have their weaknesses they wouldn’t be very interesting characters if they didn’t. Almost as if implying that women are inherently weak, especially since strong isn’t used nearly as often to describe male characters because it’s assumed of them. These characters are seen as extraordinary and labeled as strong, often in a way that marks them as different from other female characters. Elsa is powerful and so full of magic she literally cannot control it. I’m talking about the butt-kicking, weapon-wielding type. She embodies what a lot of people think about when it comes to strong female characters, à la Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games series or Sarah Connors from the Terminator franchise. Frozen 2, which was the last movie I saw in theaters and is quite popular in my house right now (the whole Frozen franchise really…as evidenced by the requested Frozen Fever cake I made for my 3-year-old’s birthday earlier this month), is a really good example of the different kinds of strengths female characters can have.
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