tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post1044941812012733484..comments2024-02-20T10:12:20.623+00:00Comments on The Blog That Time Forgot: International Women's DayTaranaichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-51026899609567316842011-03-10T18:55:07.328+00:002011-03-10T18:55:07.328+00:00Well, speaking as someone who was always considere...Well, speaking as someone who was always considered an "oddball" throughout my school years (I grew up in a small Canadian town, probably not dissimilar to Cross Plains) I can feel a lot of REH's pain. Today is so wonderfully lovely for blokes like you and I. Everything that I used to be vilified for liking (Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi and fantasy in general) is now big business. Fellows who were once lonely nerds are now hip and exciting. The worm has turned. I think Two-Gun would have thrived in this time.M. D. Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13820831338678743992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-86176265701059901442011-03-10T00:26:16.507+00:002011-03-10T00:26:16.507+00:00Indeed, M.D.: I think REH would be able to deal wi...Indeed, M.D.: I think REH would be able to deal with modern times a lot better than people would give him credit for.Taranaichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-39031792817118496752011-03-09T14:20:25.019+00:002011-03-09T14:20:25.019+00:00With progressive views like that, not to mention h...With progressive views like that, not to mention his voluminous lexicon and his penchent for flights of fancy and the liberal use of his imagination, it is little wonder that the citizens of Cross Plains would not know what to make of this "odball" living in their midst.<br /><br />How tragic it is that these misconceptions persist to this day. Far from being a mental deviate, Howard would have found a kinship with the people of today, the same people who denounce him as sexist and racist based on what others have done with his creations, without really ever knowing the man himself.<br /><br />It is criminal that he is not given credit for how visionary or progressive he actually was.M. D. Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13820831338678743992noreply@blogger.com