Post 8: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston & “The Female Individual and the Empire” by Feng Lan

I thought that the view of women is interesting in the tales. I remember loving Mulan as a child and always loving the fact that she wasn’t about being saved by Prince Charming. If anything, she saved “Prince Charming”. I feel that more woman figures such as Mulan should be shown to younger girls to show that they don’t need a man to be powerful or make a change. Everyone is capable of doing something big for big amounts of people, but it’s up to every individual to seize the opportunity and work with it. If you just sit there you won’t get anywhere by just staying there and doing nothing meaningful. Whether you are a boy or girl, man or woman, or even cat or dog, your gender or identify doesn’t define what you can do.

The girl in “The Woman Warrior” wanted to fight for the boys starting at 14, and she did everything she could to one day be able to fight for what she thought was right. The best thing was that people didn’t just knock her down because of her gender, just that she was too young. However, I also think knocking down younger children shouldn’t always be done, because sometimes youth has important ideas as well. However, if we know it’s something that could potentially be dangerous, definitely try to hold them back. But if it is something that is just about opinion, it is important to hear those opinions because they are living in this planet too, and they are growing up in this new generation, so they may know things that happen that you may not know.