Frozen, the Homosexual Agenda and the New Satanic Panic
By now it's all over the Internet about how Kathryn Skaggs, who blogs at A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman, believes that Disney's
I have no desire to sit here and debunk line by line of Skaggs' looooong and rambling post on the subject. Worrying that universal feelings like the euphoria that comes from escaping emotional repression are some how homosexual bio-weapons bent on infecting the youth of today just goes to show you how tight some people feel the need to grip their children and grandchildren's life options.
And hey, Disney totally does slip in positive gay roles in the cracks of movies. Or at least Pixar does sometimes. If you've never looked through the special features on The Incredibles the National Supers Agency files clearly show that Thunderhead raises adopted kids with his "roommate" Scott. Merida from Brave was also accused of being gay for her unprecedented rejection of Disney princess culture's hyper-elevation of heterosexual love into the realm of the magical. Mostly that was just mainstream media screwing around, though.
No, what I'm more interested in is what looks to me like the newest incarnation of American Satanic hysteria invoked by Skaggs' attitude.
To recap, in the '80s and '90s there was something called the repressed memory movement. The idea was that certain traumatic occurrences in childhood were so bad that your mind literally hid them away and you utterly forgot about them until retrieved by a psychiatrist using hypnosis.
As a trained clinical hypnotist myself I can tell you there's a grain of truth to this. It's called abreaction, and it occurs when repressed emotions bubble to the surface making the patient feel past incidents of terror, fear, sadness, and other negative feelings very keenly. It's not whole memories, more like an emotional déjà vu.
What actually happened when therapists went looking for repressed memories was that people's memories would conform to the therapist's expectation. If the therapist thought that maybe a parent had sexually molested a child, if he pursued the line of questioning hard enough the patient's mind would eventually invent a memory of the abuse. It's the same phenomenon that has law enforcement dealing with so many people confessing to crimes they didn't commit under interrogation.
What also arose out of the movement was the discovery of hidden pockets of Satanic abuse, mostly in daycares. Once again, therapists (Often with eyes on book deals) would question children and receive horrific stories of black masses, molestations, and other macabre fan fic happening all throughout America's day cares. Meanwhile, Jay's Journal, which was supposed to be the recovered diary of a depressed teen who committed suicide after joining a Satanic cult but was really written by Mormon Ph.D. Beatrice Sparks, author of Go Ask Alice and other cautionary "true stories" was informing parents of widespread cult activity just waiting to snatch nice kids up.
Throw in the rise of heavy metal rich in Satanic imagery and the whole of America looks like it's hiding a shadowy empire of the devil.
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