Subject: Re: [FFML] (fanfic) (Ranma) Worse, Chapter Six
From: bastian@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de (Sebastian Weinberg)
Date: 11/15/1996, 12:57 PM
To: Fanfiction ML

 On Wed, 13 Nov 1996 22:44:05 -0600 (CST) Scott Jamison said:

: On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Sebastian Weinberg wrote:

: > Hmmm.  I'm not so sure about Ranma's homophobia as others seem to
: > be.  He is very forceful about his own orientation (probably for
: > the reasons outlined here: it's his way of assuring himself that
: > his masculinity is still intact), but where are any signs that he
: > thinks badly about *others* being homosexual, or homosexuality in
: > and of itself?  Remember that homosexuality does not have such a
: > long history of being vilified or tabooized in Japan, as it has in
: > christian-dominated coutries.

: 	Well, there *is* the Tsubasa story, but since Hitomi called me on 
: this one too, this is another bit that will need a fix...

Well, what *about* the Tsubasa story, then?  I can't remember any
homophobic reaction there, apart from Ranma's anger at the end,
when he finds out that he unknowingly was competing and even
flirting with a boy.


Sebastian
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