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posted by cmn32480 on Monday August 24 2015, @02:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the white-males-have-enough-awards dept.

So, last night the SJW types over at the Hugo awards decided they'd rather burn the whole thing to the ground than give out an award based on what the readers like instead of social justice reasons:

The members of the World Science Fiction Society rejected the slate of finalists in five categories, giving No Award in Best Novella, Short Story, Related Work, Editor Short Form, and Editor Long Form. This equals the total number of times that WSFS members have presented No Award in the entire history of the Hugo Awards, most recently in 1977.

Here are a few of the people on the #SadPuppies slate that should be quite surprised to learn that they were denied a chance at an award for being white males when they wake up this morning: Rajnar Vajra, Larry Correia, Annie Bellet, Kary English, Toni Weisskopf, Ann Sowards, Megan Gray, Sheila Gilbert, Jennifer Brozek, Cedar Sanderson, and Amanda Green.

takyon: Here are in-depth explanations of the Hugo Awards controversy.

Previously: "Rightwing lobby has 'broken' Hugo awards" Says George R.R. Martin (240 comments)


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @05:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @05:28AM (#226876)

    > The Sad Puppies are being accused of being misogynist white males who created a slate full of white males.

    That is an incorrect reading of the situation. If you believe that's the case then no wonder you are confused. The puppies are accused of creating a slate full of stories that confirm their ideology. You don't have to be a white male to buy into the puppies ideology, you just have to say things that fit the puppies worldview. Hell, you don't even have to mean for your words to be taken that way, as some if the authors nominated by the pupples pulled their stories rather than be associated with the group.

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  • (Score: 2) by Jiro on Monday August 24 2015, @05:31AM

    by Jiro (3176) on Monday August 24 2015, @05:31AM (#226880)

    That is an incorrect reading of the situation.

    Two minutes of Goggling "sad puppies" with "white males" indicates otherwise.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @05:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @05:39AM (#226884)

      > Two minutes of Goggling "sad puppies" with "white males" indicates otherwise.

      Two more minutes indicates wise.

      Seriously, anyone who says "google it" is just admitting their error while trying to protect their ego.

      That you are clearly over 30 years old and yet still use that kind of grade-school logic reflects very poorly on you. Even drunk I know not to do that.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @08:14AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @08:14AM (#226919)

        Oh shut the fuck up you drunk bastard..

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by Jiro on Monday August 24 2015, @02:12PM

        by Jiro (3176) on Monday August 24 2015, @02:12PM (#227019)

        These are all from the first page of Google results:

        Actually, most of the hits you get for that search aren't making accusations at all, because they're defending the Sad Puppies from the obviously false accusation. But here's a couple:

        http://www.anarchogeekreview.com/opinion/hugo-scandal-2015 [anarchogeekreview.com]

        "The status quo of straight white cis-male domination is ending. We are winning, and they know it. They’re salting the earth in their retreat, but we’re winning. "

        http://cosmologicsmagazine.com/this-week-in-science-religion-13/ [cosmologicsmagazine.com]

        "Despite some exciting gains (all of the winners of the 2014 Nebula awards were women and people of color), one group of people is attempting to make sure that the Hugo Awards (sci-fi’s most prestigious honor) go exclusively to white heterosexual men."

        And let's not forget the Entertainment WEeekly article, originally titled "Hugo Award nominations fall victim to misogynistic, racist voting campaign", and the retraction: ( http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/06/hugo-award-nominations-sad-puppies [ew.com] )

        "CORRECTION: After misinterpreting reports in other news publications, EW published an unfair and inaccurate depiction of the Sad Puppies voting slate, which does, in fact, include many women and writers of color. As Sad Puppies’ Brad Torgerson explained to EW, the slate includes both women and non-caucasian writers, including Rajnar Vajra, Larry Correia, Annie Bellet, Kary English, Toni Weisskopf, Ann Sowards, Megan Gray, Sheila Gilbert, Jennifer Brozek, Cedar Sanderson, and Amanda Green. "

        • (Score: 2) by Jiro on Monday August 24 2015, @02:52PM

          by Jiro (3176) on Monday August 24 2015, @02:52PM (#227036)

          Correction, those aren't all from the first page, I left in that first line by mistake.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @07:07PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @07:07PM (#227189)

          "CORRECTION: After misinterpreting reports in other news publications, EW published an unfair and inaccurate depiction of the Sad Puppies voting slate, which does, in fact, include many women and writers of color

          Hello, McFly? That story is over four months old. Once upon a time your accusation held true for a some loud simpletons, but if an official acknowledgment by the most widely read entertainment magazine isn't enough to say that the problem the mainstream has with the sad puppies is not that they "created a slate full of white males" then what would it take to convince you otherwise? For fucks sake the list of authors is a simple basic fact, there can be no argument about it.

          All you are doing is hiding behind a strawman in order to avoid acknowledging the real criticism of the puppies.