[ SECRET POST #2717 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2717 ⌋

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Late day at work, sorry!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I've always thought that Mulan didn't necessarily hate the look, but what the look represented. When she was dressed up like that in the movie it was with the intention of her being a good little wife-to-be and being judged on her looks, and how well she'll be able to attract a man (a woman's only worth). I think if she could dress like that again, outside the confines of those ideals, she might have liked it more.

[elaminator]

I agree. Granted, she might not have liked it more, but what you're saying about what the look represented to her makes sense.

(Though like iceyred said, she would've looked really awesome in armor.)

[(Anonymous)]

This. I never got the sense that she hated being girly as much as she hated what was expected of her, which was to get married into a good family. Like you said, her entire worth was being judged on how she looked and how she behaved.

[(Anonymous)]

She didn't even hate what was expected of her, she hated that she didn't fit it. That's why Mulan is one of my favorite "girl power" stories, because she's not Plucky Girl Trying To Make A Point, she's Frustrated Girl Trying To Do Right By Her Family and the "challenging people's notions of gender roles" thing is just a side effect of her finding an unexpected way to do that.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I didn't think it was the clothes, just that she felt useless going to a matchmaker.

And the picture the OP posted is based on her outfit from the very beginning of the movie (granted jazzed up a lot) but those were her everyday clothes so I'd assume she was comfortable in them.