Talk:Chi-Fu/@comment-9340689-20140212031527/@comment-1672596-20150105205711

Actually, I would consider Gaston as being nice to women compared to the likes of Chi-Fu and Prince Achmed (and I don't even like Gaston). At least he doesn't threaten to kill women or belittle them simply for existing, and at least he didn't threaten women or beat them if they read, and believe me, there are men who actually would go so far as to beat women if not kill them if they even attempted to get an education. Just look at the incidents of the Taliban throwing acid into schoolgirls faces in Afghanistan if you don't believe me. It's funny how so-called "feminists" ignore the actual sufferings that women undergo in the Middle East, China, and even in India at the very least, if not actually promote it just because it's a "lifestyle choice."

And for the record, I'm pretty sure that even in Ancient China, they would have realized it's an extremely bad idea to send a man who is clearly unfit for battle due to a severe injury, so his knowingly attempting to draft Fa Zhou into combat despite the fact that he has an injury that would make him more of a liability than an asset to the military, even be killed senselessly during combat, is just flat out disgusting and impractical, even for that time period. There's honor and then there's flat out stupidity. If you're going to sacrifice your life, fine, but it needs to actually mean something and actually benefit the country directly as otherwise it's just flat out suicide, which isn't even honorable as it doesn't do a thing to help the country survive an invasion. He should have exempted Fa Zhou since he was clearly unfit for battle. I know Asian society places honor above all else, but even that has its limits.

Jesse220 also has a point especially when in China right now, their one child policy only allows for male babies to survive. They usually abort female babies. And I'd even argue that women are treated worse in China today than they were in the time Mulan takes place.