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You mean the Hugo awards are problematic? Well, golly gee, an award that only one Black woman has ever received for a full novel (cause N.K. Jemisin is fuckin amazing), that was fine with Harlon fuckin Ellison sexually assaulting Connie Willis onstage to laughter, that allowed that hack George "clout initials" Martin to carry on like the racist transphobe he is (look it up), that has given more to that right-wing shithead Heinlein to anybody (and Orson Scott Card? Oh pls), once nominated L. Ron Hubbard (okay, he lost, but still, I remember pickin up one of his books off the street when I was homeless and thinking "Well, I'm desperate, but not that desperate" and ended up with a big supply of toilet paper - there's your literary criticism, fuckers), and a list mainly that looks like Cecil McBigot IV OBE is a bit not great?

Well, damn.

"Ah, but there have been women..."

Yeah. Le Guin could shit on most of these guys from the upper fuckin stratosphere (like McCaffrey, first woman to get it), which is the only way she could get that thing. Same with NK Jemisin (tho god forbid you accept a Black woman until 2016, and where's Octavia Butler's novel award? She got em for short story and novelette, but she wrote more than that. And better than a lot of the chucklefucks on that list). Rowling? Ugh. Plenty more deserving than her. But less rich and privileged, right?

See that's the thing. People like Heinlein and Card are all "Oh, I hate affirmative action" but these fuckers managed to ride on the wings of mediocrity, buoyed up by their very privilege to get praised for what, exactly?

I'm sorry. They just ain't very good.

And I mean, Iain M Banks might've been a yt cishet man, but I guess socialist sci fi that made my nonbinary butt cheer was too much for em as well. Specially in the 80s.

That's why Larry what's his fuckin name, the Sad Puppies dickhead was all up in arms, cause "Noo...it must only be right-wing yt cishet men winning or..."

Or maybe you're a shit author, Larry, if even with the odds stacked that heavily in your favour, you still can't get one. Ha. I'm sure you're good at accountancy, tho. Maybe. Or maybe not.

"You can't just criticise the art, only the arti..."

Yeah. I fuckin can. Cause that's part of the point. It's historically been fuckers called Cecil and fuckin whatever who ain't really that good who get published, and get awards over better writers.

And what about writers who ain't from the US or UK? Well? Says it's allowed to be a translation. Plenty of good writers out there.

Tho not enough have been published, cause the publishing houses are bigots too.

And fuckin Martin, praising Lovecraft.

Lovecraft was a racist, and also, couldn't write for shit. Most ppl can write better than Lovecraft, and he got a retrospective short story one.

Mary Shelley shits over his trash.

And now R.F Kuang and Xiran Jay Zhao excluded for speakin up about Palestine etc?

Fuck that.