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Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

It's also about filial loyalty. If she weren't standing in for her father, she wouldn't have joined the army in the first place. It's not even a story about a woamn feeling constrained by society's limitations of her sex.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and that's actually a super important part of the original folk tale. All the parts where she's nearly executed or otherwise condemned by people for disguising herself are Disney additions: in the various original Chinese versions people are generally startled/impressed to learn the truth, not angry. Mulan steps outside the narrow box her culture allows for women, but she does it out of filial piety, so it's cool.