A Fascinating Article about Worldcons, Business Meetings and the Hugos

[callistra]

http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=1235


Thanks cassiphone 
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Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I actually really like that amendment. I'd change it to allow for the opposite to hold true though (if the nominees were all women, we bump a man into the pool as well) - I don't think any of us seriously expect that to be required in the immediate future, but I think it would balance the amendment and possibly give it traction with some of the stick-in-the-mud regular business meeting voters.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I thought it was fascinating - and all the responses to it as well are interesting. People bring so much to this sort of discussion, and there's no real way to see clearly.

I agree, I think that it should be slated the way you suggested, so that it's an issue for every one to consider, and it's not biased towards either sex - it just happens that the water the Hugos are swimming in are unthinkingly and inherently slated towards males.

But OMG what trouble makers LOL
Cheryl was pretty cool when I met her, and yes, TOTAL TROUBLEMAKER.
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[angriest.livejournal.com]

I imagine a Worldcon business meeting is like a WASFF AGM only ten times larger, older, maler, and crankier. That's what I see in my head anyway.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Yes, very much agree with you there
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