Post 6: Sexism shown in a fiction character that i love

Mulan is a young Chinese woman who dresses as a soldier to replace her father in the war. Throughout the film, she is criticized for behaving differently from the stereotype of a woman of the time, to the point of considering her incapable of having children because she is very thin.

What I liked most about Mulan when I first saw her with my sisters was that she was not the typical female character of the animated films of that time. She was not a princess and did not need to be rescued, on the contrary, she was in charge of fighting the bad guys.

But although the protagonist breaks with sexist stereotypes, the film exposes examples constantly. In one of the songs ( A Girl Worth Fighting For ) the secondary characters, friends of Mulan, describe how their ideal girl should be: good cook, beautiful, affectionate, etc. For that reason I have considered that the film is an attempt to break with the typical but even includes sexisms.