Zen wrote:
At 18:49 1/5/97, Benjamin Franz wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Richard Lawson wrote:
Benjamin Franz wrote:
A hit! A hit! Ouch!
It seems, Zen, to be your goal to put down every feminist interpretation
I can think of.
Damn! He's gotcha there, Lawson-san!
He does not "have" me, Zen. His views are valid, but I don't agree with
them. RT's goal in "Ranma 1/2", IMO, is to challenge our views on
gender roles. She would not do this by having her characters assume
stereotypical roles. At least early on; she seems to lose her focus in
the later manga, and depend more on slapstick comedy than anything else.
Mind you, Zen is not saying that they *are* right, either. Zen
*knows* better than to join into this sort of debate.
Then why are you?
Normally, Zen would just send these comments to Franz-san
directly, but Franz-san's ISP is bouncing anything routed
from the Mindspring Domain.
So you decided to make it as public as possible.
*sigh* Anyway, Zen will leave the issue of the relative political
correctness of the stereotypes in question to the experts, and focus on
other aspects of the story.
Too late.
Zen the Heretic-