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[–]worried19 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I saw Mulan as a kid, and even back then I didn't relate to her because even though she disguised herself as a man, she went back to being girly at the end of the movie by choice. So I don't know how trans people decided it was a story about a trans man when she's literally in a dress in the final scene.

[–]lefterfield 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I loved that take on it, personally. Not that it would have been "worse" if she'd stayed a warrior/counselor, but to me there's something deeply moving and powerful about becoming a warrior not for personal self-interest, but because you feel it's the right thing to do/want to protect someone else. It's not a perspective that's shown enough imo.

[–]worried19 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I have no objection to it. It just didn't resonate with me as a GNC kid who basically lived my life as a boy. I think it's weird that trans men claim Mulan as one of their own when Mulan herself made it clear at the end of the movie that she was not gender nonconforming by choice.