Subject: Re: [FFML] [C&C]100% Woman
From: David Johnston
Date: 9/4/1997, 10:18 PM
To: eric.adams@decisionone.COM, eda104@erols.com
CC: FFML <fanfic@fanfic.com>, Mark Doherty <mdoherty@mailbox.uq.edu.au>

Eric Adams wrote:

so the story thickens.  This one actually had me cracking up as i read
it.  I liked the parts where Genma gets beat up and Ryouga accuses Ranma
of being gay.

One of the best parts of the story is where Ukyou asks around about
Ranma, I like the style but I think that if each time you used why there
you might have her posing a different sort of question that she might be
grappling with.

Ranma made me fairly disgusted at the end though, he better make some
damn fine restitution to Ukyou, for lying to her, this time on purpose!

Ranma's central tragedy is that he has always wanted a friend and
never had one.  That is, of course, if you define friend as someone
who does NOT attempt to kill you.  Akane, Ukyou, and Ryoga have all
been people he could have defined as friends.  They have all 
seriously tried to hospitalise him at the least.  
His Nanami identity may not give him real friendship, but it's as 
close to having a friend as it looks like he'll ever get as
things stand.  
Besides if Ukyou insists on trying to kill
him, dishonesty is the best policy for everyone involved. 


These damn Saotome's are going to be the death of me... blood pressure
rising. gah....

Please I have to beg you stop calling Ukyou he.  Its... uhh...
disturbing in a way that I can't place.

It's only common courtesy to people living in drag to refer to
them by their assumed gender.  Ukyou thinks of herself as male
and (at the moment) looks more or less male.  Disturbing?  
Perhaps it is.  Perhaps it should be.  

In "For Every Action", I had a terrible time deciding whether
to refer to Akane as male or female in her cursed form, but 
I figured that since Akane would vigorously object to being
referred to as male, discretion was the better part of valour.  


Still I always liked Ukyou best so i may be biased on that.