Projecting gender as a woman

     Photo still from Disney's Mulan

This picture is from the movie Mulan by Walt Disney pictures.I chose this still from the movie because I believe it fits with the fiction piece "GIRL" by Jamiaca Kincaid when Mulan has to go through this ritual to bring honor to her family as a young Chinese woman. In Jamaica's fictional piece she described in a way how it would be to be a young woman as though someone is dictating it to her.Like in her piece a quote that stood out to me was "on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent in becoming,"older women with older customs always put down young women and modernization. They don't believe in equality and always try to tell their young girls how to act.To me they are saying to put on a mask like Mulan is wearing with the makeup on this picture. They are telling you to hide who you are and to do the things they are expecting you to do,but I always think that there is nothing wrong with being different not all women like pink and want to be a house wife.

That's why I chose the Mulan picture and the part of the movie where  the older  women tell her that men want women that are thin with a little waist, that wear makeup and that are obedient and quiet.I really frown upon a lot of older customs that only humiliate women and don't show what women are capable of when not pressured to be a house wife.In Jamaica's piece it was all about how to be the perfect woman for  a man to even consider marring you and make you their house wife, and how it would be a disgrace to be something other than that.