"Richard Qunt" <r.c.qunt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Amani" <amani@charter.net> wrote in message
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>
> > Just become something is legal doesn't make it any more appealing.
>
> There's nothing wrong with a man taking advantage of one of the laws that
> make Japanese men among the luckiest in the world.

If you want to take advantage of young teenage girls who are so lost in the
world they don't know any better, go ahead. That's on your morals.

> > And no, a
> > 14-year-old is NOT a woman. She is a girl. It would be Gendou taking
> > advantage of her, especially in his God-like position over her.
>
> Rei is not 14. She's a clone of Yui, so she's really has the body of a
woman
> in her mid-20's. This also explains why Rei is so much more mature and
> inteligent than Asuka is.

One, she is not a direct clone of Yui. She has a mixture of Yui's DNA and
Angel DNA. Two, having a clone of something else does not mean they are the
same age. It means they have the same DNA. But Rei IS 14, because she has
been alive for 14 years. Are you going to say in Fuyuutsuki's flashback
episode, that Rei wasn't REALLY under ten, because she's a clone of Yui?

Where are the examples of Rei's maturity? If anything, she knows nothing
about emotions. I'm not saying she's an immature ditz, I'm saying that her
quiet nature can't be taken as proof of her maturity. She's very confused
and, in a way, naive.

Asuka has major emotional problems, herself. But most of the characters in
NGE are pretty immature.

And then PLEASE give me an example of Rei's superior intelligence. We HAVE
proof of Asuka's: she's 14 and she's already been through college. That's
pretty damn good. Am I saying Rei's stupid? No. I'm saying we don't really
have proof of what level of intelligence she has. Just because the
Rei-obsessees take every opportunity to bash Asuka and take a billion
meanings from Rei's silences that mostly involve her being the most mature,
intelligent, sex-obsessed character ever, doesn't mean it has even the
slightest shred of evidence in the series.

Rei is a lost, emotionally confused, naive, broken down girl who wants to
die but the God of her universe won't let her. She's an excellent character
worthy of compassion and sympathy, but don't give her amazing traits that
there's no proof of.

--Taryn