I like the message. People deal with these dilemmas all the time but for the context of the story it does seem out of place.
I know we only got snippets of Sun Jing’s mom but she seemed cool and not at all this high strung/overprotective.
While it would explain Sun Jing’s attire, it doesn’t account for her sporty attitude. I mean, why isn’t she worried that her daughter is sporty? Sun Jing could get injured playing.
Is the mom only worried about the harm other people could bring to her daughter? If that’s the case, her mom would have trouble with her friends. If she’s hanging around too many guys’ an overprotective mother could construe this as her daughter being prone to sexual assault.
Unless the naysayer wasn’t her mother? I mean she seemed to always be told what she shouldn’t do while wearing a backpack...
Besides Sun Jing pretty much did all those things, save for wearing a short skirt, at Mophead’s birthday party so maybe this isn’t really part of the story but more of a what if.