This isn't specifically related to sci-fi/fantasy, but it concerns the site we're (currently) based at, and is a fight against the same ideology that we're fighting here, so it's somewhat relevant.

Feel free to share news, opinions, and plans.

Edit: I'll make a subverse (the Voat equivalent of a subreddit) as soon as Voat is back to somewhat usable again. I'll announce updates here.

On the anniversary of GamerGate, Vox Day releases SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police:

http://www.amazon.com/SJWs-Always-Lie-Taking-Thought-ebook/dp/B014GMBUR4

At about the same time (give or take a day or two) some SJW named Alexandra Erin, under the pen name Theo Pratt, releases a bad parody of this book, including a bad recreation of its cover, called John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular: How SJWs Always Lie About Our Comparative Popularity Levels:

http://www.amazon.com/Scalzi-Popular-Author-Myself-Quite-ebook/dp/B014JSBP7A

Shortly after this parody release, some other anonymous author (not Vox Day, according to him) releases a parody of the parody, called John Scalzi Is A Rapist: Why SJWs Always Lie In Bed Waiting For His Gentle Touch; A Pretty Pretty Girl Dreams of Her Beloved One While Pondering Gender Identity, Social Justice, and Body Dysmorphia:

https://archive.is/W2B5s

It's in reference to a piece that John Scalzi wrote some time ago, speaking from the author's voice of a rapist to score political points:

https://archive.is/Twf1S

And here he complains about being mocked endlessly about it:

https://archive.is/LwiL3

Vox Day is very much amused by this latest parody:

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/09/i-said-punch-back-twice-as-hard.html

John Scalzi isn't, and considers suing:

https://archive.is/gInGY

https://archive.is/4KGzc

Ex-federal-prosecutor, currently-practicing lawyer Ken White, perhaps best known as @Popehat on Twitter, writes a blog post about it, arguing that the book is almost certainly protected by the First Amendment as parody:

http://popehat.com/2015/09/02/satire-vs-potentially-defamatory-factual-statements-an-illustration/

Vox Day is amused, again:

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/09/why-johnny-cant-sue.html

Until John Scalzi decides to play dirty, goes to Amazon, and somehow convinces them to take the book down:

https://archive.is/up7Zv

https://archive.is/5JQnw

http://www.amazon.com/John-Scalzi-Rapist-Pondering-Dysmorphia-ebook/dp/B014RJQS0U

That's where we stand right now. The story is developing. Stay tuned.

Edit: Breitbart is fairly quick with its coverage (H/T /u/inkjetlabel):

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/09/02/vox-day-book-turns-amazon-kindle-store-into-battleground/

Edit 2: The banned book is reuploaded under a slightly different title, John Scalzi Banned This Book But He Can Never Ban My Burning Love: A Pretty, Pretty Girl Dreams of Her Beloved While Pondering Gender Identity, Social Justice, and Body Dysmorphia (H/T /u/LWMR):

http://www.amazon.com/John-Scalzi-Banned-Never-Burning-ebook/dp/B014U9GDMU

Edit 3: Yet another anonymous author, under the pen name(s) Brianna Scalzi, George R.R. Moretons, Sam Piddle, Toadessa Nielsen Haten & Ritaskeeter Sarkeesian, has released SJWs Never Lie: Censorship is Tolerance! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! (H/T /u/LWMR):

http://www.amazon.com/SJWs-Never-Lie-Censorship-Tolerance-ebook/dp/B014UH990A

Edit 4: Mostly-retired lawyer and current self-help book author and blogger Mike Cernovich provides commentary (H/T /u/inkjetlabel):

http://www.crimeandfederalism.com/2015/09/is-john-scalzi-a-rapist.html

Edit 5: Mike Cernovich also gives a reading of the banned (but recently reuploaded, under a new title) book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wA_ktTV4A8

As I understand, the Sad Puppies movement was a cross political movement seeking to broaden political representation in the Hugos and bring attention to deserving authors who were spurned for writinf stories instead of sermons. However, the Wikipedia page labels it a "right wing anti diversity" movement, im the opening line no less, and sources itself to opinion articles of all things. What's more, going back MONTHS every edit to remove those effectively unsourced lies has been IMMEDIATELY counter edited by one of a small group of editors apparently watching the article.

I've sent a notification of vandalism to the suggested address, but honestly I expect little. Has anybody else attempted to tackle this. Does anynody have any "reliable sources" with which one might source a different opening?

The 2018 Hugo Award nominees were released today, and it's another SJW victory parade. In particular, they've managed to pretty much completely extinguish gender diversity in the short fiction categories. Of the 18 nominees across the Best Short Story, Best Novelette and Best Novella categories, not one was born a male.

(And yes, I'm using that wording deliberately. Yoon Ha Lee and K.M. Szpara are both FtM trans)

This is the SJW end game - they complain about diversity and ratios when they're not in their favor, but once opposition is out of the way they show their true colors. Any male writers trying to break into SFF would be well advised to choose a female pseudonym.