Subject: Re: [FFML] [FF] Thy Outward Part
From: Caroline Ann Seawright
Date: 10/28/1996, 7:26 AM
To: sterman@sprynet.com, Fanfic Mailing List

Well... hrm ... that's very shoujo to say the least.

Well written and everything, but you wanted to talk about issues, ne?

Somehow, I don't think it's possible for a person to change preferences
just like that ... I would *never* go for a girl, even if I had the
body of a guy ... It's not a thing you learn, nor a thing that someone
can teach you ... It's just something that is ... Although some people
change preferances, I don't think that it would happen like that.

Personally, I'd be turned off by a girl, however good a friend she was,
or however close she was to me ... It just seems really wrong for Ranma,
too ... He HATES being thought of as a homosexual - and now he's just
thrown himself into BEING one ... 

Outside looks don't change the inside person. Someone of the same sex
liking you/lusting after you won't make you change, either, however
nice they are towards you ... It's just not something that happens,
in anything that I've encountered or heard of.

So, basically, I think that the whole story is OOC... for the reactions
of Akane and Genma, too ... It's just not something that they'd do,
just as turning gay, just because he's locked into a girl body, isn't
something that Ranma'd do ...

And you forgot the last option that Ranma could have - have a sex change
operation.

That would be the most likely action that Ranma would take, since you're
brining the Ranma world so much into reality.

It's easier to change your body than to change your preferences.

Kun-chan...