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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The 75th World Science Fiction Convention (commonly known as WorldCon) is being held this weekend in Helsinki, Finland. The convention is where the annual Hugo Awards are presented, and today, the convention announced the latest recipients.
This year, women almost completely swept the Hugo Awards, taking home the top prizes for literature in the science fiction community. That's particularly notable, given how the awards have been increasingly recognizing works from female and minority creators. The trend prompted a counter-movement from two group of fans, the self-described "Sad Puppies," and their alt-right equivalents, the "Rabid Puppies." These groups gamed the awards and forced a slate of nominees onto the Hugo ballot in 2015, prompting widespread backlash within the wider genre community. Another award, the Dragon, faced similar issues earlier this week when several authors asked to pull their nominations over concerns about Puppy interference and the award's integrity.
This year's sweep by female creators seems to be a strong repudiation of anti-diversity groups. 2017 also marked the year the ceremony earned its own award: a representative from the Guinness Book of World Records certified that the Hugos are the longest-running science fiction awards ever.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Wednesday August 16 2017, @11:13AM
You have stated the bleedin obvious in a very long-winded way. You are right, but anyone who cannot see this is deliberately not seeing it.
Some years ago I did cycle road racing in the UK. At the time hardly any women regularly did such racing - probably no more than 20 nationwide; this comapred with around 10,000 men. When it came to the Olympics or World Championships teams of about 5 or 6 (I cannot remember the exact number, but around that) of each sex were entered. So a woman rider only needed to be among the best 25% to become an Olympian, but a man had to be among the best 0.1%.