Subject: Re: [FFML] [fanfic][Ranma] Clothes Make The... - Chapter 7
From: Aya Nakajima
Date: 3/2/1998, 6:21 PM
To: cannady@magiccarpet.com
CC: fanfic@fanfic.com



The Reverend Prez wrote:

 > > Ranma was almost growling now, the seething
frustration of a year's worth of impotent refusals
hard in her mind.  "Then...only then, after
everything's changed, do you notice the fuzz in your
mind.  All of a sudden, you're seeing the world with
different eyes, acting with a different body, and
thinking with a different mind.  You notice things...
feel things...emotions and thoughts that make you
want to throw up once you change back to a girl.

At first, I leaned towards your argument; reading through it a second time,
however, I found it far more difficult to reconcile any anti-male agenda with
this chapter.  Notice Leifker's deliberate use of the qualifier "once you
change back to a girl."  To equate this statement with an alleged point that
"male equals evil" seems to understate Leifker's apparant aims to further
separate Ranma's male and female characters.  Leifker is also suggesting that
Ranma experiences shifts in modes of thought (and, thereby, personalities) as
s/he transition betweens sexes,  In this case, we're experiencing
the transformation and the experiences of Ranma-male from the viewpoint of
Ranma female.  Whose to say that the male perspective in Leifker's
sub-universe is any less negative?  How would any man feel while watching his
body systematically transform into a female?


I thought that I might remind some people about something that "happened" in the
first chapter of this epic saga. If everyone remembers this : with the exception
of Kasumi & Ranma (who both know differently), everyone else in the cast is under
the impression that Akane hit Ranma one to many times and cause a "personality
dislocation" so that Ranma now thinks "she" has always been a girl and that the
curse "she's" under is a hot water one. And therefore can not be blamed for
thinking the way "she" does from the female perspective on things because to
everyone around her, Ranma has always been a "female" in a male's clothing. Just
my two cents on this thread. ^_^'

Now the argument shifts to "what is Leifker trying to say?"  If he's
suggesting that Ranma's personality DOES change as he changes sexes, then the
idea of Ranma "prefering" one mode of gender over the other is colored by his
preferences DEPENDING on his CURRENT sex.  While it is clear that
thoughts transition intact, Leifker clearly indicates that there
is an emotional divergence between Ranma-male and Ranma-female and thereby
those personalities react differently to certain thoughts and emotional
states.