On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, James Bateman wrote:

Mousse Lee wrote:

       Hmm.. this entire story has just given me a thought... could Ranma
be gay?  To resist the affections of Shampoo and Ukyou there must be
something wrong with the boy.  He told Ukyou she was cute, and she had been
working on her masculine side up to that point.  He has a thing for the
short haired tomboy macho chick as opposed to the others.

Nahhh this debate was held on RAA a month or so before it died.  Ranma just
has a really well developed self preservation instinct - Teasing Akane and
getting malletted is one thing, but if he ever really CHOSE one of the
girls, the other two would turn him into bean paste.

Zen-

All of this leads to the question... Why does Ranma put up with it all?

Let's face it! WHO in their right mind would want to be Ranma? Sure... 
You get lotsa cute girls, a huge physique and martial arts skill, but you 
get three fiancees with attitude, a dozen psychotic enemies and heaps of 
people who either hate you, are jealous of you or just want to fight you 
cause your the best fighter around... Sound to me like a fairly 
unpleasant existance... I think I feel sorry for him...

P-word.