Talk:Mulan/@comment-25097798-20150619220648/@comment-1672596-20150625162527

"The only boring, ladylike, prissy damsel in distress in the line-up is Aurora, yes Cinderella and Snow White did wait for their prince to come, but they at least did something compared to Aurora."

Well, technically-speaking, Cinderella did go to the ball without exactly planning to dance with the prince, but I see your point there. And yeah, Aurora's the only DP whose goal literally only amounted to marriage and love (Snow White and Cinderella at least desired to be freed from their evil stepfamily as a motive, and Ariel obviously had Eric play the least [though by no means insignificant] role in her goals and motivations).

And quite frankly, you want anyone to blame for the current mess of considering Snow White, Cinderella, and Ariel to be insipid weak creatures who only had love and marriage as a goal as well as waiting for their prince (even though, at least in the case of Ariel, that's a downright lie), you should blame Linda Woolverton, since she basically at least spread those insults against them when trying to promote Belle, if not started it.

And yeah, I agree, Mulan was definitely empowering to women, and not in the 1960s Womens Liberation Movement sense (probably not quite as empowering as Ariel, but still...).

And I agree, Merida really shouldn't have been a DP in the first place. For goodness sakes, she wasn't even made by Disney, she was made by Pixar. Pixar may be owned by Disney now, but she's still not Disney. Don't forget Leia's not in the lineup either, and neither are several other Pixar princesses.

I do think Mulan shouldn't be a Disney Princess though, since she really isn't of royalty in any way, and in fact is the only DP to not be this (Belle's in the gray area since Adam was technically called a prince in the prologue despite not actually being identified as such in the film proper). Couldn't they just put her into the Disney Heroines or Disney Adventurers category?