Gender Norms In Bring Honor To Us All

Disney undermines the gender norms of the lyrics of the songs by visually representing people of all shape and sizes. For the more realistic features of women, the scenes of “Bring Honor to Us All,” present women with different facial features, beauty, shape, and fashion choices. In Mulan’s bath cleaning scene, the woman giving the cleaning is exceptionally short--she is up to Mulan’s hip--, she is not as slender, has sagging arm skin, and wrinkles around her eyes. For the women doing Mulan’s hair, one has more of a round body type and face and the other woman is taller and slenderer but has body parts and features that seem abnormally emphasized. The only women that show most of the ideals are Mulan and the other girls getting ready to meet