Yes,  I'm back from my long weekend.  Now on to business-

At 06:40 AM 7/9/97 PDT, Chris McNeil wrote:

Actually, that's an incorrect assumption.  There is no law against
guys going into the aether/hammerspace; Soun, Ranma, Happousai and
other guys have all used Almighty Mallets in the manga.  The reasons
girls use it more often is because they usually have more reason.
Thus, Akane would be able to smash Ranma with it in either body...
something which might be good for a bit of humour if anyone else sees
and misunderstands... ^_^

  Why use hammers in fanfic all the time?  Akane has used both her fists
and other objects to good effect in both manga and anime.

                                                                   dml