'The teenage girl has always been a volatile figure—transforming physically and on multiple other levels. In both films, Disney and Pixar herald their main characters’ abilities to navigate family systems and crack open arrangements that belie the truth.'
being shunned, and the fear instilled in those remaining that the same will happen to them—never mind the relentless pressure to perform to family expectation. What family doesn’t know this dynamic? It also seems like a script for modern motherhood.is different, Pixar is on a parallel mission. A radical move comes early on through the openness of Ming, Mei’s mother, assuming that she’s gotten her first period, then unapologetically bringing her pads at school.
When Mei finally stands up to her mother , she taunts her by gyrating in a series of dance moves and backing her butt up into her mom’s face—the offense of which is so great her mother backs away from the mere vision. Mei’s comment at the movie’s end to her mother “my panda, my choice” echoes the feminist phrase, “my body, my choice” and signals newfound bodily autonomy.
When one of Mei’s supportive friends suggests she ‘keep the panda,’ the idea takes hold. While in a circle ceremony to capture and contain the pandas for all her female relatives, Mei watches them one by one give up their fierce animal alter-egos, then decides to remain hybrid—able to morph between human and panda form. Her comment at the movie’s end to her mother “my panda, my choice” echoes the feminist phrase, “my body, my choice” and signals newfound bodily autonomy.
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