{"id":6375,"date":"2015-04-28T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=6375"},"modified":"2015-04-29T06:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:16:45","slug":"puppies-think-all-children-should-get-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/04\/28\/puppies-think-all-children-should-get-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppies think all children should get prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>In fact, I\u2019d be willing to bet that if we added up all the Hugos lost by the folks Puppies hate the most, it would be a massive number.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Catherynne Valente (@catvalente) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/catvalente\/status\/592769189565313025\">April 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nSo there was a bit of Puppy mocking doing the rounds on Twitter over the weekend, started by Catherynne Valente (as far as I know) after finding herself dragged deeper in the Puppy mire after being described as <a href=\"http:\/\/tlknighton.com\/?p=7070#comment-2062\">the &#8220;queen bee&#8221; of Social Justice Warriors<\/a> by Turgidsen; because we&#8217;re all still in high school apparantly. What she and others took aim at was perhaps the most sensitive spot of the Puppy movement: their belief that just by showing up they deserved Hugo Awards. Hence the talking about Hugos not won, or nominations not gotten, as Wesley Chu below.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Dear Internet, I think it&#39;s a travesty that I haven&#39;t been nominated for 15 Hugo Awards by now. Travesty I say. That and a Daytime Emmy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wesley Chu (@wes_chu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wes_chu\/status\/592771055741214721\">April 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nBecause for a bunch of tough, rootin-tootin cynical internet hard men (and women) wise in the ways of the world, these people sure are behaving like the middle school teachers of many a rightwing anecdote and expecting every child to get a prize. It&#8217;s visible as far back as Larry Correia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterhunternation.com\/2011\/08\/23\/worldcon-report\/\">original report on the 2011 Worldcon<\/a>. Both Larry and Brad are incredibly quick to start wallowing in victimhood when they don&#8217;t get what they think they&#8217;re entitled to, although they&#8217;re &#8212; as they never tire of pointing out &#8212; succesful, bestselling writers and don&#8217;t need the Hugos or Campbell Awards.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Seen on Facebook today&#8230; :-) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Vz9kMw48Ax\">pic.twitter.com\/Vz9kMw48Ax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AmyCat =^.^= (@BookUniverse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BookUniverse\/status\/593188708699930624\">April 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nNow consider. Campbell eligibility last two years after your first publication, which means that with a slot of five nominees each year you have ten shots at being nominated, in a field that sees many dozens of new writers each year, especially in the last decade. For any Hugo category too there are only five spots, again in a field that sees countless metric tons of short fiction each year and upwards of 1,000 new novels published. The odds that you as a writer are good enough, visible enough to be nominated are small and not being nominated is not a slur against you: plenty of better writers weren&#8217;t. Being nominated puts you already in an elite position compared to almost all your peers that year: why gripe that you didn&#8217;t win?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s just being a sore loser and having to invent conspiracy theories as to why you didn&#8217;t win because you cannot imagine not winning, only makes that impression worse. Not all children can get prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, I\u2019d be willing to bet that if we added up all the Hugos lost by the folks Puppies hate the most, it would be a massive number. &mdash; Catherynne Valente (@catvalente) April 27, 2015 So there was a bit of Puppy mocking doing the rounds on Twitter over the weekend, started by Catherynne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,22],"tags":[824,2229],"class_list":["post-6375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-science-fiction","tag-hugo-awards","tag-sad-puppies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6380,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375\/revisions\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}