Being a Woman in Mulan
In Mulan 1, the song "Honor to Us All" states the people around Mulan believe "We all must serve our Emperor... A girl by bearing sons." However, in "A Girl Worth Fighting For," all the men talk only about the attributes and actions of the woman they'd like to marry, mentioning nothing about childbearing. Even Chi-Fu, the chancellor we all hate, sings, "I've a girl back home who's/ Unlike any other," and doesn't mention children. Yao counters, "Yet the only girl who'd/ Love him is his mother." She would love him because she's his mother and mothers must love their sons, but this might only be in a royal family where if your son's a chancellor you have to act like you love him even if he's not a great guy.
Interestingly, Shang doesn't sing at all during this song. The reason could be gathered that whenever he tried to think of a person he'd like to marry, the only face that popped up was Ping's, who he didn't know at the time really was a woman, and thus he had nothing to contribute regarding a girl worth fighting for.
Now Mulan's mentioning her own characteristics we all probably assumed was her hoping her friends would see the merit in a more active and less passive woman, but in reality, could just as easily have been her hitting on them or figuring out her chances of getting with one of them later on.
