If anyone is interested in reading more about how deeply conservative and regressively angry-white-male traditional sci-fi is, John Scalzi has written a lot about the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies debacles at the Hugos. It’s hard to find an organized summary of the situation so my best suggestion is to Google sad puppies site:whatever.scalzi.com and read all his articles.
Vox also did an overview piece that I haven’t read but looks good:
