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<blockquote data-quote="Melan" data-source="post: 138447" data-attributes="member: 1713"><p>What SHARK said. I might add that I, personally, get rabidly disgusted when confronted with "celticesque" fantasy environments - but your mileage might vary. I also get bored when I see yet another PC world with no real conflict (or minimal conflict, or conflict where one side is completely good (usually the treesie-woodsie do-gooders) and another is completely evil). Conan's world isn't like these - it is a world of unbridled passion, of madness and decadence, common brutality. And it isn't about a noble fight for good and tolerance, or even equality - Conan is just opposing the completely evil ones because they stand between him and something else. A lot like D&D adventurers, actually. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>As WSmith pointed out, Howard could be considered the anti-Tolkien - maybe even the anti-Marion Zimmeron Bradley. Oh, and this is why I like it so much.</p><p></p><p>On women and "pulp fantasy": my favourite pulpy fantasy is Rhiannon's Sword by Leigh Brackett, who was a woman. And, guess what, the novel has a strong and beautiful woman in it - Ywain, namely. [As an aside: the book is <strong>very</strong> good and highly recommended for reading and mining for ideas.] I rest my case.</p><p></p><p>On chamail bikinis: I wonder why nobody complains about treating males as objects - after all, they are just as scantily clad as the women and represent evil stereotypes...</p><p></p><p>So, the best solution: if you don't like it, avoid it. I know I definitely avoid Marion Z Bradley. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Melan, post: 138447, member: 1713"] What SHARK said. I might add that I, personally, get rabidly disgusted when confronted with "celticesque" fantasy environments - but your mileage might vary. I also get bored when I see yet another PC world with no real conflict (or minimal conflict, or conflict where one side is completely good (usually the treesie-woodsie do-gooders) and another is completely evil). Conan's world isn't like these - it is a world of unbridled passion, of madness and decadence, common brutality. And it isn't about a noble fight for good and tolerance, or even equality - Conan is just opposing the completely evil ones because they stand between him and something else. A lot like D&D adventurers, actually. :) As WSmith pointed out, Howard could be considered the anti-Tolkien - maybe even the anti-Marion Zimmeron Bradley. Oh, and this is why I like it so much. On women and "pulp fantasy": my favourite pulpy fantasy is Rhiannon's Sword by Leigh Brackett, who was a woman. And, guess what, the novel has a strong and beautiful woman in it - Ywain, namely. [As an aside: the book is [B]very[/B] good and highly recommended for reading and mining for ideas.] I rest my case. On chamail bikinis: I wonder why nobody complains about treating males as objects - after all, they are just as scantily clad as the women and represent evil stereotypes... So, the best solution: if you don't like it, avoid it. I know I definitely avoid Marion Z Bradley. :D [/QUOTE]
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