From: Nicholas Leifker
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 10:08 PM

Gary, Richard... thank you for your comments.
However, your recommendations are denied.

That's a rather harsh way of putting it.  We were only offering
suggestions, not insisting on changes.

Then why have you been repeating yourself, constantly
saying how wrong it is?  You've suggested it.  Fine.
I've responded to the suggestion.

I have *not* been repeating myself.  Have you been reading my posts?

And yes, you responded to my suggestion.  You responded with scorn to an
honestly-offered suggestion.  Not very polite.

"Fuzz" has very strong, pejorative connotations.
 Not the kind I like to see.

I thought of 'Fog', but that's even worse.

I agree.

Challenge for you: Come up with a word that is only
one syllable, would be in Ranma's vocabulary, and
would accurately convey the sensation of your
old personality fading away to be replaced by a
different one.

Why does personality have to change with a change in chromosomes?  It's
this premise that I disagree with.  Yes, someone in Ranma's situation is
going to have their overall personality change.  But it's not
Jekyll-and-Hyde; not one personality when male, another when female.  And
you're implying that male is Hyde, female is Jekyll with this description.

Richard, I don't like PC.

Nick, this isn't about PC.  It was never about PC.  It was about Ranma
seeming to state that male is evil.  I would have responded to "female is
evil" in the same way.  No one is inherently evil due to race, color, or
creed.  That's not PC; it's common sense.

Come up with a better alternative that would
not only fit what Ranma's goals are, but would
convey what Ranma wants to say, rather than
drill the wrongness of it into me.

With all due respect, that's your job.  My job is to say, "I don't think
this works right."  If I'm *really* good, I'll offer an alternative (and I
have in the past).  I didn't offer one here because one didn't occur to me
off the top of my head.

And I wasn't trying to "drill the wrongness" into you.  I was just
commenting on something that bothered me.  You're assuming acrimonious
intent that isn't there, Nick.

That is what C&C is all about - not drilling into
the author what's wrong with it over and over, but
helping the author come up with something right from it.

I disagree.  C&C is both - pointing out the wrongs, and the rights.
Comments and Criticisms.  And, true, it is about offering suggestions when
they occur to the C&C-er, but I've never felt that a C&C-er must come up
with an alternative to everything they find wrong in a fic.

And, quite frankly, you don't seem interested in an alternative, so why
should I spend time trying to find one?

-- Nick

-Richard