Why do people think Mulan is trans?

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[–]Constantine 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ugh this drives me so nuts. They're doing the same thing to Jo March from Little Women. Just because she liked playing male characters in her skits (because all the available actors were female and someone had to do it), and because she didn't want a man, and because she had to use male pen names to make money, she must've been trans. Misogyny couldn't have anything to do with any of that, no. During the American Civil War. In the 1860s. Because trans was a thing then. Not misogyny /s

edit: 1860s, not 1960s, lol

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not to mention her eventual marriage seems shoehorned in the last minute so that she doesn't become an old spinster.

[–]Constantine 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, that was because the publisher wouldn’t publish the book as it was originally written, with Jo single. So Louisa May Alcott gave her an old, unattractive love interest to spite them. Malicious compliance.