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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: B-ko (was Re: KOR: Of Akane, idol-worship, and unusual)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.214836.11871@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <725283578.AA00450@abcbcafe.UUCP> <1992Dec26.011109.3638@nic.csu.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:48:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.011109.3638@nic.csu.net> ramberg@futon.SFSU.EDU (James Ramberg) writes:
- >> Yes, I would, and do. Then again, I'm quite liberal and see nothing
- >>wrong with either B-Ko or Akane (KOR) being bi- or gay.
- >That's not really the point. It has never, at least as far as I can
- >remember, B-ko's motivation as being non-sexual. It is keeping with
- >the class-structured and sex-separated enviorments that exist in many
- >countries e.g. Japan, HK , China, and Great Britain. (Check Maiko
- >Covington's articles on ferkel.ucsb.edu)
- >I would say that it would greatly sadden me if it was since it would be
- >extrememely stereotypical ( as well as being wrong)
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- Didn't Project A-ko start out as intended for the Cream Lemon series? So
- B-ko's motivation _could_ very well have been meant to be sexual....
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
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- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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