At 09:19 PM 2/25/98 GMT, Gary Kleppe wrote:

I agree with Richard on this one.

Frankly, IMO, there's been an underlying message throughout this whole
series telling us that femininity is good. Ranma's comment about men
having fuzz in their minds is only the most blatant example. There's
been nothing that I can think of so far to balance things by suggesting
that masculinity might have advantages of its own.

All I can say is to read the previous chapters.  Look at the section where
Ranma tells Kunou about her 'curse', and compare it to what is said here.
They are almost identical in overall meaning, though anger is the
overriding emotion in the latter (for reasons stated earlier).  Read the
context in which things are said, and what Ranma is trying to do.  And yes,
that includes the 'fuzz' comment.

Remember: Ranma started all this with a deception.  She is still trying to
deceive everyone.  How trustworthy are those words in comparison to what
she really thinks?

Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics

-- Nick
-wondering when subtlety became an impossibility in fanfic writing.

Well, I, for one, found this to be pretty obvious, but I would appear to be
in the minority. My read on the situation was indeed, that Ranma was merely
carrying on with the same deception that she perpetrated on Kuno. However,
deception or not, this scene was a very emotionally charged one, and Ranma
is afterwards understandably overwrought. There is also the simple fact that
Ranma, who has been supressing his feelings all his life, is now letting
them out, and she is having a hard time dealing with them. And therefore is
tending to overreact to *everything.*
That said, given that so many people missed the point (assuming that I
haven't too), perhaps the point was made a little *too* subtly. There is,
after all, a fine line between subtle and obscure.

Morpheus the Shaper
(who is obviously far too fond of the parenthetical expression)
http://milamber.home.mindspring.com