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How many books/authors of the original AD&D Bibliography have you read? Do you feel you see D&D differently than people who have not read any?
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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8774828" data-attributes="member: 7025997"><p>The depiction of the black pseudo-African corsairs in a clearly subservient position in <em>Queen of the Black Coast, </em>the Native American stereotype Picts in <em>Beyond the Black River</em> (though there's a bit of an aesop about how Aquilonia really should leave them alone), the frequent use of Stygians as faceless mook enemies in <em>Hour of the Dragon</em>. <em>The Vale of Lost Wome</em>n has a tribe of brown-skinned lesbians who want to sacrifice the white Livia to a bat demon, but Conan's agreed to help her because they're both white and has earlier rescued her from the Balakah tribe... As for sexism, he spanks women to keep them in line a few times and frequently tosses them over his shoulder, though they all come willingly to him, being supermuscular and all. Howard was actually something of a feminist for his era (you have him arguing with Lovecraft at one point over this), and has strong female characters like Belit in <em>Queen of the Black Coast </em>and Valeria in <em>Red Nails</em>; they fight well, though not as well as Conan. But most of the time they just need to be rescued. (Howard was writing to make money and his preferences lay more to the Belit/Valeria types when he had a freer hand.)</p><p></p><p>There's a bit of a complication in that Howard thought barbarism was <em>better</em> than civilization, so the stereotypes kind of cut the opposite way sometimes. Nonetheless, 1930s guy really did think like a guy from the 1930s. (As opposed to his buddy Lovecraft, who thought like a guy from the 1830s...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8774828, member: 7025997"] The depiction of the black pseudo-African corsairs in a clearly subservient position in [I]Queen of the Black Coast, [/I]the Native American stereotype Picts in [I]Beyond the Black River[/I] (though there's a bit of an aesop about how Aquilonia really should leave them alone), the frequent use of Stygians as faceless mook enemies in [I]Hour of the Dragon[/I]. [I]The Vale of Lost Wome[/I]n has a tribe of brown-skinned lesbians who want to sacrifice the white Livia to a bat demon, but Conan's agreed to help her because they're both white and has earlier rescued her from the Balakah tribe... As for sexism, he spanks women to keep them in line a few times and frequently tosses them over his shoulder, though they all come willingly to him, being supermuscular and all. Howard was actually something of a feminist for his era (you have him arguing with Lovecraft at one point over this), and has strong female characters like Belit in [I]Queen of the Black Coast [/I]and Valeria in [I]Red Nails[/I]; they fight well, though not as well as Conan. But most of the time they just need to be rescued. (Howard was writing to make money and his preferences lay more to the Belit/Valeria types when he had a freer hand.) There's a bit of a complication in that Howard thought barbarism was [I]better[/I] than civilization, so the stereotypes kind of cut the opposite way sometimes. Nonetheless, 1930s guy really did think like a guy from the 1930s. (As opposed to his buddy Lovecraft, who thought like a guy from the 1830s...) [/QUOTE]
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