At 07:08 PM 1/5/97 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:

Ok - its bad form to followup your own posting. But it was something
relevant that just came to mind. :)

On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Benjamin Franz wrote:

On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Richard Lawson wrote:

Benjamin Franz wrote:
If it's your
intention that Ranma is only acting sexist because that's they way she
believes a woman should act, you need to play this out more.  As it
comes across, Ranma doing housework and giving up her martial arts seems
to stem from her acceptance of herself as a woman in mind and body, and
I kinda don't like that.

Fair enough, and something I would probably go into in a longer story.

Another possibility I considered writing in was that the attitudes came

>from the *original* red haired girl who drowned in Spring of Drowned Girl

1,500 years ago. Very tragic story.

It would be consistent with the rest of the curse theme I've used for
Ranma to have acquired *that* girl's attitudes WRT to sex roles (as seen

What's WRT?

through Ranma's modern eyes). There was *nothing* resembling modern
feminism anywhere on the planet at that time, AFAIK. 

Not organized feminist movements.  However, people always dislike rules that 
tell them not to do stuff they want to do, and when random people in past 
centuries resented rules that said you can't do something if you're female 
but you can if you're male (or vice versa), that counts as past feminism.

-- 
Benjamin Franz