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From: Sean Connor <connor@meena.cc.uregina.ca>
To: Gary Kleppe <KLEPPE@execpc.com>
Cc: fanfic@fanfic.com
Subject: Re:[FFML] Violence (was:Ranma and Nabiki)
Date: Monday, April 28, 1997 1:12 AM

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I'd like to throw this hypothetical question out:

How would _Akane_ have reacted in the situations mentioned above?

How would _Akane_ have reacted if Ranma had shown Ryouga her 
(Akane's) breasts?

How would _Akane_ have reacted if some strange girl showed up and 
started fouling up her plans?

How would _Akane_ have reacted if she owned a restaurant and some 
wierdo hidden in a pop machine showed up and started busting things 
up?

How would _Akane_ have reacted if a statue charged at her?

Something tells me that she would have reacted with a lot more 
violence than Ukyou did.  (I hesitate to even imagine the beating 
that the first one would have brought on. :)

Shouldn't you give everyone a fair shake?

How would _Ukyou_ have reacted in Akane's position?

How would _Ukyou_ have reacted if she was forcibly engaged to someone she
didn't know?

How would _Ukyou_ have reacted if she had been kidnapped and threatened to
be turned into a duck?

How would _Ukyou_ have reacted in any other event Akane had to endure?

For that matter, how would *any* of Ranma's other fiancees had reacted? 
Much more violently than Akane, I would imagine.

And Mr. Connor, if you're still looking for a fanfic in which Ukyou is
portrayed as a saint, try Sean Gaffney's "Glory Box".
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