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Women Swept Nearly Every Category at the 2017 Hugo Awards

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:16AM   Printer-friendly

"exec" writes:

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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @10:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @10:43AM (#554651)

    Or, women are just better at writing science fiction, and always have been. The Sad Puppies have only served to make that manifest! Poor Sad Puppies! Maybe they could win a "Red Pillar" award, instead?

    Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, to suggest her work stood the test of time merely by the non-virtue of having being written by an individual without a Y chromosome is stupid. To suggest there was not always equality of opportunity at the Hugo awards is stupid and to force equality of outcome by politicising the awards is stupid. If females are "just better at writing science fiction" then why would it be newsworthy that women win the majority of awards? And if that were the case, wouldn't neo-marxists be looking to force women out to ensure their precious equality of outcome?

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