Obscure Disney knowledge might soon pay off romantically, thanks to a highly specific new dating site that wants to take you from this: 
 
 ...to this: 
 
 It's called Mouse Mingle, and it's a website where people can connect with one another over a shared love of all things Disney. Creator Dave Tavres tells Mashable that his website's been in the works since a 2011 trip to Disneyland with a few friends. 
 
 "As usual with my friends, they asked about my dating status and why I wasn't trying the online dating sites," he wrote in an email. "I told them I had tried them, but there was no way to narrow down the searches to find women in the right distance and age range who loved Disney. That was the inception moment." After some brainstorming, he registered the domain name that night. 
 
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 The website features all the traditional elements of a dating site, with customizable profiles, photos and ratings. For $12.55 a month, users can private message and partake in online chats with other users. Where the website differs from other sites is in its questions, which ask users to share their favorite Disney songs, characters, parks and memories. 
 
 "My hope is that people literally around the world will find the site useful," Tavres said. "Just as there are big Disney fans near Disneyland and Disney World, that same single fan-base also lives near Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris and other Disney parks. However, there are countless single Disney fans that live in the spaces between Disney parks. Those people often have a greater passion for Disney, as they don't get to visit as often." 
 
 Mouse Mingle joins the ever-growing list of niche dating sites like Whovian Love (for Doctor Who fans) and Date Vampires (for...vampires?). 
 
 Go forth, Disney fans, and brush up on those Little Mermaid factoids. You'll need them on the first date. 
 
 
 
 
 
 [H/T: Los Angeles Magazine] ||||| The world’s first all-Disney dating website launched this morning. Mousemingle.com is the brainchild of Dave Tavres, a self-proclaimed “software geek” from Culver City, and it caters to those obsessed with all things Disney. “Niche dating sites are more common these days,” Tavres said. “There’s a dating site for pot lovers and JDate for Jewish people. The first time I saw Farmers Only I thought it was a Saturday Night Live sketch.” 
 
 Users are asked to check boxes asking about your favorite Disney songs, Disney shopping habits, and “Disney nerd level” in the hopes of finding a match. “All the normal sites,” according to Tavres, “don’t have Disney questions.” Anyone can view user profiles and photos, but contacting someone requires a $12.55 (the “55” is a nod to the year the park opened) monthly membership fee. 
 
 Tavres used to live in Anaheim and was even an engineer on the Disneyland Railroad but still had trouble finding dates. “I’m not the guy who hits on women at the park,and there’s no flag that says, ‘hey I’m single,’” Tavres says. “I found it hard to find women who were as interested in Disney as I am.” Good luck to Tavres, I hope he finds a date. What is that old saying abut the bare necessities being the mother of invention? ||||| DateBritishGuys.com promises romance with an adorable accent. DateBritishGuys.com 
 
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 ooking for that special someone with whom you have everything in common... including facial features? There's a dating site for that. A new site launching this month called FindYourFaceMate.com uses facial-recognition technology to help users find potential romantic partners who they resemble. The site's founder, Christina Bloom, says facial resemblance can help spark an initial attraction, and there's science to back it up: A 1989 study published found couples are more likely to share facial resemblance than strangers. Of course, FindYourFaceMate.com, is just the latest niche dating site to offer a unique gimick for finding love online. Here are 12 dating options that are, by design, not for everyone: 
 
 1. Brits, please 
 
 Date British Guys offers Anglophile ladies the chance to find love with their "very own David Beckham, Hugh Grant, Orlando Bloom, Jude Law, Sean Connery, Prince Harry"... or at least some chap with an accent. 
 
 
 
 2. Cat lover seeks same 
 
 Why be home alone with your cats, when you can target other kitty lovers on Purrsonals.com, "where cat lovers greet and meet!" Even if you're not looking for human-to-human contact, the site also acts as a social network for the feline-friendly. 
 
 
 
 3. Good looks a must 
 
 "Saggy boobs" and "nerdy glasses" are discouraged at Darwin Dating, a site for "beautiful people only." Members rate the attractiveness of those wishing to join through — what else? — a "natural selection process." 
 
 4. Pot fans only 
 
 "Why toke alone?" asks 420 Dating, a site for those looking to get high on more than just love. Those simply seeking a place to buy weed should look elsewhere, say the founders: "This site does not intend to be an information source for cannabis." 
 
 
 
 5. Wedding rings will be ignored 
 
 Ashley Madison, "the world's premier discreet dating service," is geared toward those in committed relationships looking to have an affair. With more than 7 million members, it seems to have found an audience. 
 
 
 
 6. Animal magnetism a plus 
 
 You don't actually have to be a farmer to join Farmers Only, but it helps. Fans of "blue skies, wide open spaces [and] raising animals" are welcome. If you prefer "four dollar cups of coffee, taxi cabs... and getting ahead at all costs in the corporate world," the site is not for you, say its founders. 
 
 7. As recommended by your psychiatrist 
 
 No Longer Lonely is an "online social community for adults with mental illness." Potential users are encouraged to first consult with their psychiatrist and/or social worker. 
 
 8. College education required 
 
 The Right Stuff calls itself the "Ivy League of dating," limiting its membership to "single graduates and faculty of a select group of excellent universities and colleges." But, with nearly 70 universities qualifying as acceptable alma maters, admission requirements are not exactly as rigorous as Harvard's. 
 
 
 
 9. Got the seven-year itch? 
 
 "Connect with singles who share your STD" is the slogan of STDmatch.net, a site geared toward those living with sexually transmitted illnesses. There might be plenty of demand: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in six Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes. 
 
 
 
 10. Libertarian fiction lovers only 
 
 The Atlasphere connects "admirers of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged," novels by the conservative author much beloved by today's right wing. The site purports to have more than 12,000 profiles of affectionate Rand lovers. 
 
 11. To boldly go where no lovers have gone before 
 
 "Love long & prosper" is the tagline at Trek Passions, a personals site for those who love Star Trek, Star Wars, and other science fiction. Those seeking "someone fun to attend a sci-fi convention with" should also apply. 
 
 12. Seeking lookalikes 
 
 And of course, over at FindYourFaceMate.com, you can track down that guy or gal who will make you feel like you're gazing lovingly into a mirror... 
 
 This article was originally published on October 4, 2010, and updated on March 8, 2011. ||||| Little girls (and guys!) might adore Disney Princesses. But there's a major problem with some of our favorite supposedly female-centric films: how much time men spend speaking versus women per classic movie.According to a new study by Carmen Fought and Karen Eisenhauer — two linguists who dug into the dialogue across the Disney Princess animated movies — men are taking up way more than their fair share of talking time, particularly during the films of the '80s and '90s. This could pose a major problem for the developing minds of young audiences."We don't believe that little girls naturally play a certain way or speak a certain way,” Fought, a professor at Pitzer College, told The Washington Post . "They’re not born liking a pink dress. At some point we teach them. So a big question is where girls get their ideas about being girls.”So, how do the speaking stats break down? In a word: depressingly.Once upon a time, women held their own in the classic Disney Princess films. The Snow White comparative male-to-female dialogue time is about equal, while Cinderella breaks down to 60-40, and Sleeping Beauty to 71-29.But the movies made after that didn't hold to that standard. Men made up 68% of all speaking in The Little Mermaid, 71% in Beauty and the Beast, and 76% in Pocahontas.Mulan — a movie about a woman trying to assert herself in a man's world — featured women speaking only 24% of the film. And Aladdin was dominated by male voices at a whopping 90% of the one-hour-and-thirty-one-minute run."There's one isolated princess trying to get someone to marry her, but there are no women doing any other things. There are no women leading the townspeople to go against the Beast, no women bonding in the tavern together singing drinking songs, women giving each other directions, or women inventing things," Fought explained. "Everybody who’s doing anything else, other than finding a husband in the movie, pretty much, is a male.”In other words: Disney is failing the Bechdel test, big time.The good news? Things are starting to look up on the Disney Princess front. In recent films, including particularly Tangled and Brave, the trend of more men speaking than women is reversed. But oddly enough, Frozen stacked up poorly, with less than 50% of the dialogue coming from women despite the fact that the story itself centers on two sisters. There's still a long way to go ||||| / Updated By Mary Emily O'Hara 
 
 A classic drive-in theater in northeast Alabama said it was cancelling plans to show Disney’s new Beauty & the Beast film, about a girl who falls in love with an animal, because of the film’s "homosexual character." 
 
 The Dekalb County theater’s new owner explained in a Thursday night Facebook post that “we are first and foremost Christians” and "When companies continually force their views on us we need to take a stand." 
 
 An NBC News request for comment did not immediately receive a response. 
 
 NBC News also discovered that the “Coming Soon” section of the Alabama theater’s website featured a poster for the film Fierce!, a “dragumentary” that says on its Facebook page it’s a “heartfelt look at the drag community during the fight towards equality." 
 
 Josh Gad (left) and Luke Evans in "Beauty and the Beast" Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 
 
 Controversy over the new Disney film, which stars Emma Watson in the iconic role of Belle and Dan Stevens as the monster who captures her heart, began almost immediately after the film’s director told British gay magazine Attitude that ‘Beauty and the Beast’ features a gay character, played by Josh Gad. 
 
 "LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston," Condon told Attitude. "He's confused about what he wants. It's somebody who's just realising that he has these feelings." 
 
 Condon also promised fans a "nice, exclusively gay moment" toward the film’s ending. 
 
 Some fans applauded the move, while other criticized the "clownish sidekick" as a gay stereotype. 
 
 A petition appeared early Thursday on LifePetitions, a platform for “the pro-life and pro-family communities.” The petition to boycott ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ which had garnered over 50,000 signatures by Friday morning, aims to tell Disney that “children's entertainment is no place to promote a harmful sexual political agenda.” 
 
 The move to show the first-ever out LGBT character in a Disney film comes nearly one year after a then-high schooler Alexis Isabel Moncada started a viral hashtag urging the company to #GiveElsaAGirlfriend. 
 
 Moncada was 17 at the time, and told the Daily Dot that she hoped Disney would give Elsa a "fire princess" to fall in love with. 
 
 "We’re portraying princesses as this one form, even though every girl can be a princess," Moncada told the Daily Dot. "If I would have had that kind of representation as a kid, I wouldn’t have felt so alone in it."
– Looking for your Prince Charming or Cinderella? Set your sights on the new dating website exclusively for Disney fans: MouseMingle.com. Creator Dave Tavres—a former engineer on the Disneyland Railroad—says "the inception moment" for the site came back in 2011 when he was telling friends how hard it was to find women who loved Disney as much as he did, per Mashable. He adds the project isn't all that unusual when you consider there are already dating sites that cater to marijuana users and even Doctor Who fans. In this case, users rate their favorite Disney songs, characters, parks, and movies, as well as their "Disney nerd level." Anyone can create a profile, but you'll need to pay a $12.55 monthly membership fee to contact other Disney buffs, reports Los Angeles magazine. (The 55 in the price is a wink at the year the first Disney park opened.) "Traditional [Internet] dating sites don't understand the passion people have for all things Disney. But we do," the site says. Many user photos already up on the site show people dressed as their favorite prince or princess.