Editing Sword & Sorcery (section)

==Backlash==
Sadly, Sword & Sorcery has long fallen out of fashion. Partly it's to do with changing cultural mores; the mystical orientals and savage black-skinned cannibals that so frequently appeared in Sword & Sorcery tales of old are now [[/pol/|a huge no-no]]. Mind you, this was actually happening even back in S&S's heyday; the genre never really was able to shake off the shame of being associated with the ''[[Gor (John Norman)|Gor]]'' novels, a sprawling literary work that took what could have been a pretty interesting Sword & Sorcery meets Space Opera setting and quickly ran it into the ground because the author was more concerned with sharing his Maledom S&M wankfuel/political manifesto hybrid with the world.

More importantly, Sword & Sorcery became synonymous in the 70s and 80s with cheap, cheesily written, low-grade, derivative fantasy; if it was advertised as "Sword & Sorcery", usually it'd be a schlockfest. Although fans strive to revive it, Sword & Sorcery has become heavily stigmatized, especially amongst the arrogant and pretentious lot that are fantasy literature critics.