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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9606357">I don't really see women or other groups winning were a big issue for most people. Plenty of women writers have won Hugos, going back decades, like Ursula Le Guin and Kate Wilhelm. I think people often throw this up to block criticism of the PC stuff, but I see these as two very separate issues (and I do believe there are still fans who probably have issues with this, but I don't think they are  large segment of the fandom). The genre was basically started by a woman. And in the 90s, when I was probably reading the most of current stuff on the shelves, most of the books I was reading at that time were written by women (especially since I read a lot of horror and they had a very large footprint in that genre). A quick perusal shows the following winners by year: Ursula Le Guin, 1970Ursula Le Guin, 1975Kate Wilhelm, 1977Vonda N. McIntyre, 1979Joan D. Vinge, 1981C.J. Cherryh, 1982Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991Lois McMaster Bujold, 1992Connie Willis, 1993Lois McMaster Bujold, 1995Connie Willis, 1999 JK Rowling, 2001 Lois McMaster Bujold, 2004Susanna Clarke, 2005 Connie Willis, 2011Jo Walton, 2012That is all before you even get to people like Leckie. We have been getting more people from different backgrounds and I think that is good</blockquote>