I really like how it starts with Mulan basically hunting, and not trying to OMG FIT INTO PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY.

I also like how Mulan's first assumption was, "I'll do it! It will be appropriate".

She had to be reminded that, hey, you know what, women can't join the army, as if it's an incidental thing. And by her MOTHER, not even her father, who was like, "OMG but ur still young!"