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: 2, Funny) by khallow on Wednesday August 16 2017, @12:50PM (3 children)
The car analogy would be:
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 16 2017, @02:10PM (1 child)
That's "car of color," you insensitive clod!
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @03:52PM
I think you'll find that the phrase you're looking for is 'racially challenged car'..
(Sad, but true, I once heard the mother of a minor Hollywood starlet who married a useless Hollywood actor use the phrase 'racially challenged' when referring to one of my West Indian colleagues in an amusing attempt at being 'politically correct'..talk about Freudian slips...)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @02:20PM
Yeah, a full sweep by women doesn't sound very diverse to me either. In fact it sounds like a strong concerted effort against diversity. The problem seems to be that there are just way too many pussies in the Hugos period. (Not a menstrual joke)