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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @01:42PM (4 children)
From about 4 years of age boys focus on boy stuff and recognize girls as other (girls smell). Girls (or girls mothers) very quickly differential from boys and eventually dress, pluck, cut and paint their way to looking 'unlike men' as possible while maintaining facial symmetry. Men on the whole want to do things that men do. Dito for women. When women are shown to want to, or be able to do a job, boys will see this as what women do. Be it low or high status work, men will happily do something else, or nothing.
By the time all key positions a held by women via the HUGO quota system they'll be looking around and asking where all the men have gone and why there are no good men to marry any more.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @02:27PM
Not an issue. Most of the rabid feminists are either not marriageable material due to aesthetics and temperament or they are queer men who like to play dress up and pretend they are women. Either way, their prospects are minimal even with wide opportunities.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday August 16 2017, @06:14PM
asking where all the men have gone and why there are no good men to marry any more.
This won't be a problem in the near future: marriage rates are plummeting, and marriage will be mostly obsolete in a couple decades. The main problem here is how to keep the population size stable without the past incentives (/brainwashing) to convince people to "settle down" with someone they have a poor chance of really liking that much long-term and have kids. The answer, of course, is to transition to the society depicted in the brilliant visionary novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley in 1949, but getting to that point from here may be rough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @06:21PM
I, too, believe the Heavenly Father created us Male and Female, and not at all Gay, and that the reason for the existence of females is to become my spiritual wives, as many as possible, so that in the Future, if I am worthy, i can have my own planet Kolob. Peace be upon Joseph Smith, and Orson Scott Card.
(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday August 17 2017, @03:25AM
it's amazing what the marketers have done to childhood. At one time, kids were kids, usually dressed in white and not marketed to. This started to change in the latter part of the 19th century, accelerated with department stores which segregated boy from girl and really took off when Reagan vetoed a non-partisan law that would have regulated how TV marketed to children.