"I'll make a man outta you."

So I was sitting at home looking through my very large collection of Disney movies, when I came across one of my personal favorites; Mulan.
In Walt Disney's animated feature Mulan, a young girl is torn between her moral and expected responsibilites and her love for her father. Mulan wants gain respect for her family, however she fails the traditional test to be a perfect wife. Her father is called back into war, but still suffers from battle wounds. He is unable to fight and survive, so Mulan pretends to be a man in order to save her father and get respect and honor for her family.
Wen the heroin's grandmother first sees the young man (the general that Mulan trains with) enter Mulan's house, she affirms what she (the audience?) sees as Mulan's real victory, which is catching a man, and yells out: "Sign me up for the next war!"
By embracing a masculine view of war, Mulan cancels out any rupturing of traditional gender roles.
Men are expected to be strong and go to battle. Women are exptected to stay home and play the role of a housewife. This traditional gender discrimination is portrayed clearly through many of Walt Disney's movies. Think with me now...
Snow White - "Some day my prince will come..." playing off of the stereotype that every woman needs a man in her life to be happy. Sorry to break it to you boys, but that is not true.
"Whistle while you work..." Alright, so this is plainly portraying that women can clean and do housework while the dwarves (a.k.a men) are out making the money.
Sleeping Beauty - "Once upon a dream..." again, playing off of the fact that women need men. She sleeps until her true love's first kiss. Then she can go home and have babies and clean the palace right?
I think you can get the basic point here. Disney tends to have a pattern of women playing certain roles in society, and sort of puts females "in their place".
Even in Mulan, who showed spirit, intellectual curiosity, or disregard for authority, suffered and inevitably accepted male control.