At 09:52 AM 10/1/96 +0900, you wrote:
>Actually Ranma treats women as well, if not better, than most Japanese 
>men and male teenagers treat women and girls here.  Anime isn't real 
>life, it's better than real...Ryoga treats Akane better, but maybe 
>because he has to try harder to impress / please her when he's not a 
>pig.  Actually, Ranma-kun reminds me alot of James Dean instead of some 
>Gen-X slacker misogynistic 'toon.

        Well, yes, when the men of the world continually treat women like
crap, we hardly need male "heros" who are more of the same.  Wether Ranma is
better than the average person, I don't care.  He still is a schmuck.  Just
because Hitler was nastier than Mussolini doesn't mean that old Mussolini
was an example of the ideal man.

        Also, I don't think that Ranma is anywhere near as cool for this
time period as Dean was for his.  Maybe if you meant that Ranma was going to
die young, well, I can handle that.

Eric
Eric J. Brown

"I do not avoid women, but I do deny them my essence."

OU Classics/History Major who proudly is a member of the OAA.
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crawl/ that has always been and will always be/ there's a hornet's nest in
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