Luigi Mattera wrote:

She is always after "Ranko" to act in a more "appropriate" manner..
until she finds out that she is her son.  Then Nodoka flip flops
and threatens Ranma's life every time he does one of those afore
mentioned acts that she wanted "Ranko" to do.
  Heck, even Soun could be considered sexist due to the half assed
way he trained his daughter.

OR it could be a sign that Soun is a potato head.  Which is my theory :)

 

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
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      It sought to scour him to ash, but he would not burn.  It tried to 
crush him, but he would not be broken.  It tried to blow him away, but he 
would not move.  He locked his mind around it and struck back with his 
anger, binding it with the power within himself.  He had gone beyond 
rage, into the calm at the heart of the hurricane of his anger.  By 
turning his anger outward, he mastered it, and now he did the same for 
the power.

                                   --from 'Power', the first third of my
unfinished story, 'Parallel Lives'.