Scott Jamison wrote:

        Interesting so far...
        I think perhaps the next chapter should have Ranma and the girls
rethinking their priorities a little as they learn about the manliness
pledge and hopefully realize that Genma had a better reason to be upset
at any compromise of Ranma's masculine image than he let on.

Not really.  The pledge was, after all because of Genma's obsession
with masculinity in the first place.  

        I'd especially like it if Kasumi concedes that perhaps she went a
little too fast and furious in separating Ranma from Genma and switching
Ranma to the especially feminine look at the beginning of the story.
        The goals at the beginning were to get Ranma used to being in
female form for the long run, and to get his schoolmates to accept "her"
new identity.  This has pretty much been accomplished, so I'd say the
next step is to heal the family, and that means reassuring the parents
that Ranma is *not* abandoning his masculinity or surrendering to the

That would be difficult to do given that he is abandoning his 
masculinity and surrendering to the curse.  This is a heavily
Hitomi influenced fic after all.  

curse.  At this point, I'd think Ranma could swing back to a more
androgynous look (ala Haruka) without the daycare kids getting too
confused...

SKJAM!