Elsa should not have a girlfriend in the Frozen sequel. There, I said it.

Now, before you pass me off as narrow-minded, hear me out. I am an avid supporter of gay rights. So why am I so against Elsa being given a girlfriend? Well, maybe I should rephrase my original statement.

Elsa should not have a romantic interest in the Frozen sequel.

While Frozen was a cute princess movie about a girl overcoming her fear of being different, it also carried a different message: the power of two sisters' love.

Unlike other Disney movies, in Frozen, the princess isn't saved by her prince charming. They don't go off and get married and have a happily ever after. Anna, Elsa's younger sister, is saved from having her heart and body frozen by the power of Elsa's love. In turn, Anna helps Elsa accept the fact that being different isn't always a bad thing.

While Disney is slowly bucking the trend, and has definitely made improvements in showing self-reliant princesses over the last decade, we really don't have many Disney princesses that show that it's okay to be a strong single woman. We have many strong princesses, like Mulan, but almost all of the movies show us that happily ever after is achieved by getting married.

Yes, we have Brave and Frozen, but that's about it, at least out of the huge Box Office hits. People are so afraid that giving Elsa a girlfriend—or having any gay Disney character for that matter—will turn their children gay and that we shouldn't force sexuality on children. Both are ridiculous statements, because let's be real, it's fine that we force sexuality on children... just as long as the couples are "normal and proper" and straight.

But I'm not writing this to go into great depth about whether or not Disney should have gay characters. I'm asking Disney to keep Elsa as a strong woman that doesn't need a significant other to give her a happily ever after. Also, I don't want Disney overshadowing the power of the love the sisters have with each other by turning the sequel into a romance. Yes, Disney did have a cute Anna and Kristoff romance, but in the end it was Elsa, not Kristoff, that saved Anna.

How many little girls love dressing up as their favorite Disney characters and running around pretending to be Cinderella or Jasmine, who are smart, creative and kind? These are all great traits we should be instilling in young girls, but we also need to let them know that they don't have to get married to be happy and successful. Their life is not a failure, and they are not "broken or "weird" if they choose a different path.

This is such an important topic because it highlights the double standard placed upon independent, strong-willed female characters. When Brave came out in 2012, people began to question if Merida was a lesbian simply because she didn't end up with a prince. Why does she have to be gay just because she is 16 and isn't interested in boys? Could she be a lesbian? Sure, but the lack of man in her life isn't what makes her one.

Disney morphs and changes with the culture. Our princesses have gone from delicate and dainty housekeepers like Snow White to strong-willed and strong-bodied like Pocahontas. They even gave us our first black Disney princess in 2009 with Tiana. This decade, Disney doesn't have to pick just one character mold to roll with.

I have no problem with the cute princess and prince charming fall in love and get married movies—I grew up on them, too. But what I really want is for Disney to branch out. Give us the romance movies, but also give us some movies with princesses that are happy and successful without getting married. And yes, I would like to see a gay princess.

Little girls need role models and Disney princesses fit that role, but not all girls want to grow up, marry a man, and live happily ever after.

And we all deserve our own happily ever afters.