Looks like the Right Wing is now publishing dystopian novels

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

59. It was an attempt several years ago

by some real assholes to take over the Hugo Awards. Fortunately, it didn't work, and they seem to have gone away.
If you simply Google "Sad Puppies" you'll find many articles about them and what happened.

Just like Gaming, Science Fiction has a lot of strong women in the field, and a lot of insecure men have been trying very hard to make them go away. So far it's not working, although especially in Gaming, women's lives can be made miserable. I think it's worse in Gaming because that field is still quite new, and apparently at the very beginning it attracted enough dickwad men to make it like it is.

Science fiction has been around for a very long time, and women have been writing in the field since the beginning. Fortunately, we are long past the time when a woman writer finds it absolutely necessary to hide her gender, and I'm glad.

And depending on your current taste in fiction, you might want to take another look at the field. I will recommend regular s-f, not fantasy, which tells you about me. In particular, look at the works by Connie Willis (The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog are her finest in my opinion), Robert Charles Wilson (A Bridge of Years and Last Year are both exceptionally good), and James Van Pelt (mostly short story collections which are fabulous, but also two YA novels Summer of the Apocalypse and Pandora's Gun -- for which he is writing a sequal, hooray!) are three to start with if you have any interest at all.