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So I'm not sure who on here besides me is following things like the Hugo Award which for everyone that doesn't know is a fan/convention awards for Scifi/Fantasy writing created/hosted by the fan convention WorldCon. Normally all the book nerds get together, vote and have a bit of fun seeing whats good reading that year but this year things went somewhat off the rails.
From Io9: http://io9.com/our-show-was-one-listed-on-the-sad-puppies-slate-and-i-1695754269
The new slate of Hugo Awards nominees were just announced, and you can read the list at the link. Suffice to say, the nominees in pretty much every category (other than Best Novel) come pretty much exclusively from a fan campaign called Sad Puppies, organized by Brad R. Torgersen and Larry Correia. Last year, Correia organized a campaign which successfully placed one item in each category on the Hugo slate — so this year, they decided to go further. As John Scalzi has pointed out, this was not against the spirit or the letter of the Hugo Awards rules.
The Hugo Awards are voted on by fans, and anyone who purchases a supporting membership at Worldcon can nominate two years in a row. (And typically, it doesn't take that many votes to nominate something successfully.) To Torgersen and Correia, this meant that a "rarefied, insular" group of writers were promoting their agenda by nominating works by women and people of color. To the rest of us, it looked as though science fiction and fantasy were finally catching up to reality — the best stories aren't only the ones told by straight white men.
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I'm not sure whats going on with this but its not the first time nerds have gone off on the Liberal Conspiracy nonsense train like Gamergate, the Batgirl cover controversy and just general crazy what in the world is with these last year/couple months that every white dude feels they're under attack when a Black Person *gasp* or a Woman *gasp* or god forbid a Black Woman *Double Gasp* does anything.
Has anyone else notice this? what is this?
From Io9: http://io9.com/our-show-was-one-listed-on-the-sad-puppies-slate-and-i-1695754269
The new slate of Hugo Awards nominees were just announced, and you can read the list at the link. Suffice to say, the nominees in pretty much every category (other than Best Novel) come pretty much exclusively from a fan campaign called Sad Puppies, organized by Brad R. Torgersen and Larry Correia. Last year, Correia organized a campaign which successfully placed one item in each category on the Hugo slate — so this year, they decided to go further. As John Scalzi has pointed out, this was not against the spirit or the letter of the Hugo Awards rules.
The Hugo Awards are voted on by fans, and anyone who purchases a supporting membership at Worldcon can nominate two years in a row. (And typically, it doesn't take that many votes to nominate something successfully.) To Torgersen and Correia, this meant that a "rarefied, insular" group of writers were promoting their agenda by nominating works by women and people of color. To the rest of us, it looked as though science fiction and fantasy were finally catching up to reality — the best stories aren't only the ones told by straight white men.
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.
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I'm not sure whats going on with this but its not the first time nerds have gone off on the Liberal Conspiracy nonsense train like Gamergate, the Batgirl cover controversy and just general crazy what in the world is with these last year/couple months that every white dude feels they're under attack when a Black Person *gasp* or a Woman *gasp* or god forbid a Black Woman *Double Gasp* does anything.
Has anyone else notice this? what is this?
