>>Why?
>
>Oh, by the way, I left this out of my original post, since I was busy
>taking your pseudo-intellectual pontification more seriously than it
>really deserved, but:
>
>Masamune Shirow, in the "liner notes" to his first color artwork
>collection, Intron Depot, explained the deleted pages from
>Ghost in the Shell by saying, "I made it an all-girl orgy
>because I didn't want to draw some guy's butt."

And it's not Ben's fault that so many main characters in anime just happen to be female. What's he supposed to do? Play matchmaker and create male love-interests for all of them?

(Although, academically speaking, that could be an interesting and entertaining excercise)

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Y. Michael Chang
Mechanical Engineering major, Berkeley, CA

The difference between scientists and engineers is that a scientists can get hundreds of things wrong and one thing right, and, for that one thing, he or she will be famous. On the other hand, an engineer can get hundreds of things right and one thing wrong, and, for that one thing, he or she will be infamous.