![]() Hell, let’s make sure we incorporate Rabid/Sad Puppies’ champion John C Wright’s own comments on that very post, which includes gems like this one: ![]() If we’re parading our receipts here, then let’s do the thing properly! Let’s have all the receipts. I will say that making a list of some of the women and people of color included on their slate to prove that they aren’t racist or sexist is a very, very weird thing to do if your site and/or publisher has no political agenda. Gallo’s words but just in time to distract from women basically sweeping the Nebula Awards. I’m just going to let it sit there that the odd circumstantial nature of this statement coming out a month after Ms. I’m not going to spend time debunking the “not all (white) men” portion of the post because other people have already made this point about the Rabid/Sad Puppies’ agenda. I mean, I’m paraphrasing, but you get it. So, naturally, on Monday–coincidentally, mere days before the winners of the Nebula Awards were announced– Tom Doherty, Tor Books President and Publisher took to the Tor.com page to let everyone know that (1) that Sad Puppies is “not all (white) men,” (2) that Tor is about publishing a diverse set of books and has no political agenda, and (3) that Irene Gallo has been tamed and put back in her cage, y’all, so let’s get back to business and forget this ever happened. Even though they were on her personal Facebook page. She describes them as “right wing to neo-nazi,” and “unrepentantly racist, misogynist, and homophobic.” She also did not clarify that these statements were her own and not reflective of Tor.com/Tor Books as a whole. ![]() Last month, Tor.com’s Associate Publisher and Tor Books’ Creative Director Irene Gallo made statements on her personal Facebook page that expressed her disgust with the Rabid/Sad Puppy movement. Some of you may be familiar with the Rabid/Sad Puppies Hugo Award Scandal of 2015, which has basically been a study in gatekeeping, sexism, racism, and all the less-than-cute things we have all come to know and hate about…well, fandom. ![]()
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