Goldfish Bowl?


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from Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
subject Goldfish Bowl?
date Sat, 6 Jul 1996 12:52:39 -0500 (CDT)
> The idea that Ranma and Akane have a sibling relationship is _not_ a bad
> idea.  This doesn't mean he doesn't love Akane; it does, however, _interfere_
> with loving Akane and is why he has so much trouble admitting it.
> 
> (Though maybe I'm just thinking this because when I was in high school, I
> was living in the same house with three female cousins for a while.  Their

I don't think it would be the best way to characterize their relationship,
still I can see how living together under one roof _without_ admitting
their feelings could create some of the same kind of interactions in their
relationship.  I recall feeling when I was living in a co-ed dorm that
the greatest barrier to getting romantically involved with the women
there was the "goldfish bowl effect": there was little privacy, and
everyone knew too much about everyone else.

I'm thinking of the scene between Ranma and Akane at the start of the 
"Tendo Family Christmas" anime: it looks like they could have said
some tender words to each other (and they do later when they are
finally alone), but Soun's interference makes them retreat into
insults ... as much to keep everyone else from controlling them
as anything else.

I think they'd do better if they did go off somewhere alone together,
even if they called it a "training exercise" rather than a "date" ;)

-- 
    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu

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