Talk:Merida/@comment-5120168-20131002052905/@comment-5634526-20131026040605

Mulan is a better role model than Merida. Even though she is a warrior, whose job is to battle, which includes violence, Mulan stays graceful and poised just as a lady would do, if she is not doing her warrior job. It's not that Merida is a bad role model, she just doesn't have that lady aspect. We girls are taught to be dainty, graceful and poised, to be ladylike, but that doesn't mean we should be dependent to men and need a gentlemen to be beside us. We could both act like a lady and be an independent women who could handle themselves