https://www.screengeek.net/2022/09/29/conan-the-barbarian-series-abandoned-toxic-masculinity
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Amazon was set to make a kino Conan the Barbarian series but #metoo fricked up everything and they brought in some c*nt who hated "toxic masculinity" as the new head of Amazon Prime so they did that awful wheel of time show instead
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The most r-slurred part of this is that a good Conan adaptation, while impossible to make "PC", needn't be comically "masculine" in the manner of Schwarzenegger's depiction. Just adapt a Robert E. Howard story directly.
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Yeah they Could adopt the one where the ice queen was luring him into traps while he attempts too r*pe her, then r*pes her.
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Man. I gotta read some fricking conan. I always assumed that the "Gorean"
lifestyle was created independently.
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Gor is something else.
The Frost Giant's Daughter is a bit of an outlier since it's an almost direct adaptation of an Ancient Greek myth. In all the other stories there's tough girl boss characters and Conan never hurts a woman (there are female villains but they either get killed by the girlboss or dispatched by a third party, in some increasingly strained ways).
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There's a compilation of the original Conan short stories available on audible. It's jarring too hear the term hyperborean used so much unironically, but it's an interesting peak into early fantasy/cosmic horror works.
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But if it's a dextrous man with keen perception committing r*pe and not a musclebound hunk in a loincloth doing it, it's not toxic masculinity, it's just un-PC.
See: women's fanfics
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If you think Rob Howard wasn't too toxically masculine for Amazon Prime you've either never read Howard or you don't know anything about the kind of people who call things "toxically masculine".
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It's not PC but it's not Schwarzenegger either, and to the mongs who complain about toxic masculinity, looking like 80's Conan is all that is.
Doesn't look like Arnold in a loincloth? It's not toxic masculinity.
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Right in the article it says that after they bought Wheel of Time they thought THAT was still too toxically masculine and had to neuter the property even further.
There's no way anything as manly and adventurous as Howard's Conan would ever be allowed, unless you turned Conan into the cuck sidekick to Red Sonja or some godawful shit like that.
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They'd do a He-Man / Scott Pilgrim and kill off Conan in a show called Conan so it was all about Red Sonja.
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You just don't understand straight yaoi
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