We live in a world where women are considered the weaker sex and for ages they had been oppressed for being weak. What does strength have to do with gender? It is a question for which I’ve been searching an answer for years and only after living slightly more than two decades, I have finally found the answer to this pertaining question. The 1998 super hit animated film by Nick Caro, Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook defines exactly what women can do and how switching gender roles can play a vital role in making any nation socio-economically sound.
Although Mulan is a fictional character (based on a true story), but it does teach us many lessons. Firstly, there is no disgrace if women opt to join the armed forces of her nation. Secondly, women being humans, have every right to take part in activities that make their family secure and their family proud. Strength does not comes with gender, as it is not a ‘God-gifted’ attribute, it rather comes to those human beings who actively take part in physical activities, no matter what their gender is. As can be seen in the movie, a dauntless young women, after undergoing vigorous physical and mental training wins war for her nation, defeating the ‘Huns’ and also receives the highest medal of honour from the emperor of China for her ‘not so extraordinary’ services for the nation. But what if Mulan had failed?
The whole idea of the family system is structured in a very odd manner, which may seem perfect to patriarchal social circles, where women are confined to their homes and are expected to take care of ‘housekeeping’. Mulan, an average human being, grew-up in a ‘Patriarchal regime’ and throughout her early childhood she was forced to take part in ‘home-economic’ sessions, being trained for her future as a housewife—something that she did not like for herself, as it was by ‘force’ not by ‘choice’. Mulan wanted to do something that made her parents proud and when it came to serving the Nation in warzone, she made it her mission to take her aged father’s place and make her family proud. And it was something that she wanted to do herself too.
If she could make her parents proud then why not us?
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