That was an attempt at a quote from one of my favorite shows. But I'll wait at least a couple more sentences before shamelessly plugging everything I love. The purpose of this blog is to discuss women's roles pertaining to combat throughout literature (mainly), and also some film and video games (my other favorite things). I also plan to take a look at where the world stands now with women in combat. Right now, I'm not sure what I want to do with my life. Joining the United States Air Force is something that I'm considering.
But who knows.
Shameless plug, shameless plug.
This doesn't go with the rest of this post at all.
Before I go any farther, I'd also like to add that I'm watching Titanic as I write this (I didn't have the best day, okay? No need to judge), and I'll just leave this here for your viewing pleasure. I should also add that, in case you were one of those people that never watched Disney, the title of my blog is the name of one of the songs from Mulan, one of my favorite movies. That's also where I got the idea for this blog. Mulan is my favorite Disney princess (at least she was until Leia joined the cast at Disney). She also defies her parents, breaks both the laws of conventional society and the country itself, crossdresses, and joins the army. Why? Not for a prince that she'd seen for five seconds, like most Disney movies. For her father.
Also, I spent entirely too long on my friend's Pinterest looking for that picture.
Anyway, what does that say, that in a country where it's still kind of a big deal for women to be allowed in the military, that we're raising little girls to want to dress as guys and fight with swords?
The sequel is basically the story of my relationship. There's a lot of unnecessary yelling and talking dragons.
The more I thought about it, the more books from my childhood I came up with that had a similar concept. My favorite books were the ones where women dressed as men to fight in various fictional and nonfictional wars. My friends and I devoured Tamora Pierce's books, all about girls who fought in Tortall's wars (choose your class: tank, thief, mage). One of them, Alanna, had to dress as a man to do so. When she finally revealed her gender, it paved the way for others to follow her (although in later books, her former lover, the king, wouldn't let his daughters become knights, but that's a different story). Ann Rinaldi's Girl in Blue was another that I loved, about a girl who dressed as a man to fight in the Civil War. I'm still re-reading Scott Westerfeld's (one of my favorite authors) Leviathan trilogy. When I first picked up Goliath, I finished it in a night. Again, a girl dresses up as a boy to join the military (although this world is an alternate history of WWI, and as everyone knows or should know, alternate histories are the bomb).
Shameless plug, shameless plug. Also, my copy of Leviathan totally has different cover art.
So this is where I'm going with this blog. I guess I'll wrap up with telling you a little about myself. I'm a student in my second year of college. I'm currently an English major and music minor, but both of those are going to change. I'm thinking maybe computer science, business, or international relations. My ultimate, impossible dream job would be to work as a story writer for the Halo games at Microsoft's 343 Industries. My second dream job would be as an Air Force pilot. If those don't work out, or whatever I end up doing someday, I think I'd like to become a big truck driver. That sounds like fun to me. I spend a ridiculous amount of time browsing Reddit. I want to learn how to drive a motorcycle and own one. I'm spending next semester (Spring 2014) in Australia. I've written some stuff before, some of it decent and lots of it not good at all. I preordered my Xbox One last week (and I'm picking it up at midnight). Also, I have a class bright and early. I think I'm going to give up on Titanic for tonight, I'm in the last hour, and as everyone knows, it's all downhill from here.
This is also not relevant.
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