Talk:Chi-Fu/@comment-37405-20130402222730/@comment-1672596-20160305223251

No kidding, Angie Y. He's most certainly worse than Gaston. At least Gaston wouldn't dream of murdering women over the slightest offense and probably doesn't mind it if women talk to him (he certainly didn't mind Belle talking to him, and he didn't seem to have much of a problem with those triplets even though he clearly didn't interact with them much in the film), heck, while he did wish for sons, there's little indication he was necessarily against having daughters either (if they wanted Gaston to detest the idea of having daughters, they would have had him make a veiled threat to Belle of doing to her, what King Henry VIII did to his various wives if they didn't produce for him a male heir [ie, kill her or worse]. I know I would have made sure Gaston did so had I been in the writer's position, just to make sure people clearly understood that Gaston would have been the type to kill his wife and possibly his daughters if that's what he got.). Another reason he's extremely bad, even ignoring his misogyny, is because he did more to sabotage the army's efforts than anyone due to his utter incompetence, and what's more, he nearly got Fa Zhou killed just because he was the only eligible male in the Fa household, even when it should have been obvious that Fa Zhou was essentially a cripple and thus could not be very useful in taking out the Huns, not even sacrificing himself for honor would do much to halt the Hun advance or even slow it down, meaning he was essentially going to have him murdered. In other words, far from a dignified death, Fa Zhou would have gotten an undignified death as a result, be even less than a redshirt.

And quite honestly, while we're at it, I'd probably argue that Prince Achmed is even worse than Gaston and probably just as bad as Chi-Fu, maybe only slightly better. If you know Islamic culture and how it treats women (let's put it this way, if a woman even THINKS of talking back to her husband or getting an education, she's in for an honor killing or worse), you can see why, and it's pretty clear Achmed's Islamic (Jasmine and her father are debatable since Jasmine's wardrobe choice is not exactly proper for the Islamic culture, and besides which, King of Thieves implies that the official religion is Coptic Christianity via that wedding). This is also the main reason why, while I will acknowledge Gaston as chauvinistic, I would NEVER consider him a misogynist, as at least he actually DOES care about women and at the very least tolerate them instead of downright hating them (which is what the definition of misogyny is). Gaston would need to act more like General Blue from Dragon Ball or Chi-Fu here before he could come CLOSE to being truly misogynistic.