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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - New Year, Same Plague, Same Booze Up, Deja Vu
« on: March 05, 2024, 12:27:45 PM »
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Yes, you could write to the WorldCon committee and suggest replacing the Hugos with The Pentugo Awards, as decided every year by Pentagathus and nobody else. I'm not sure how well it would go for you, but you could suggest it.Good news everyone!
https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998Didn't read cos paywall innit bruv, but is this reporting the results of a solid study? I'm always very sceptical about how accurate these kinda things are, although I certainly wouldn't be surprised if a widening gap is real. Though I suspect it would be the case that both young men and women have shifted to the left as a whole, but with women tending to shift further left than men rather than young men moving right.
"A new global gender divide is emerging" - the political/ideological gap between young men and young women has been widening for the last 30 years, and widened rapidly in the last 10 years.
Why this has happened, and what the implications are, are pretty profound questions for democracy.
Interesting, G.R.R. Martin is not the kind of fantasy author who knows anything about material culture or combat. Maybe the RPG developers were more interested?
@Pent Oo, I've not read Pillars of the Earth. Will be interested to see if it improves.Can't tell you, I decided to return it and bought a fantasy novel called Fury of Kings or summin like that. It was reasonably good, fairly full of tropes and felt like a YA attempt at GoT at some points but overall enjoyable. Apparently it's this authors debut novel so hopefully the second in the series improves.
Are health care and education national jurisdiction in the UK?