On 25 Feb 98 -itlon at 1:05 -itlon, Douglas A. Reeves said-itlon:
Richard Lawson wrote:
This chapter disturbed me a lot. It took me a while to put my finger
on it. Here it is:
"Do you know what it's like to change, Kodachi?"
"What?" The question caught the gymnast totally
off-guard.
"You know...change." Kodachi's eyes widened as
she stared into Ranma's. The intensity of the stare
was enough to cower her...but her legs were too
weak to run. "You see, it hits the chest first,
causing these breasts we're so proud of to vanish.
The next thing you notice is the hands - you'd be
surprised how much they change from a Jusenkyo curse.
Then comes more... personal areas, areas you never
want a man to violate... except _you_ are the man
now, and that very fact feels like a violation."
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.
Now, Kodachi...do you really want to put me through
that?"
This *really* bothered me, enough to throw the whole chapter out of
whack for me.
Okay, maybe Ranma could choose to stay a woman. Maybe Ranma could
decide that he liked being female better than being male. But at *no*
time do I see Ranma deciding that being male was *bad*. And not just
bad, but *horrible*, *terrifying*. And Kodachi, evidently, agrees.
To be honest, when I read this, I interpereted it as Ranma continuing
his act, using his real irritation with Kodachi to spice up the
performance a bit... *shrug*
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