The SF SJWS are up in arms about sexism at the Locus Awards:
Renay, The Cabal @renay
Surprise, welcome to Systemic Sexism, Locus Awards edition!!Stephanie A. Allen @stephandrea_
I guess I didn’t get the memo that female YA writers don’t write SFFMartha Brockenbrough @mbrockenbrough
Hey, if you read LOCUS, don’t worry: women do actually write fantasy and science fiction, even if they didn’t make any awards lists.Martha Brockenbrough @mbrockenbrough
To clarify my earlier tweet about LOCUS’s finalists. No books by women made the list in the YA category. This defies belief.
No wonder they’re upset:
FANTASY NOVEL
Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard (Roc; Gollancz)
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (PS; Open Road)
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Wait, what? Oh, sorry, apparently this is the problem.
YOUNG ADULT BOOK
Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Harper Voyager UK)
Half the World, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey)
Harrison Squared, Daryl Gregory (Tor)
Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Levine)
The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
For feminists, “sexism” means that somewhere, somehow, a man still has something that a woman thinks she should have.
Supreme Dark Lord @voxday
You’re obviously forgetting that Joe Abercrombie identifies as a woman now. So much hate! You should be ashamed!Martha Brockenbrough @mbrockenbrough
Is this a joke? Because I am not getting it.Supreme Dark Lord @voxday
I just think you’re being very insensitive and hateful to Ms Abercrombie. Not all women have vaginas, you know.Martha Brockenbrough @mbrockenbrough
First I have heard that Joe Abercrombie identifies as a woman. If she does, that changes things.
And to think they say SJWs are no fun!