I just found this on the
Feminist SF blog.
World Fantasy Awards Judges Announced - oh look, all men "[...]the World Fantasy Award judges are:
Peter Coleborn
Robert Hoge
Dennis L. McKiernan
Mark Morris
Steve Pasechnic
[...]
Look, I'm not saying that a group of white guys can't judge the World Fantasy Awards properly. Again, I am sure they are great. But it is 2008, people. 2008 and the arbiters of what is best are still a bunch of white men."
I thought Fantasy was more fifty-fifty, or even skewed more towards female writers and editors. So.. where are they?
Three judges might be a statistical anomaly, but, seriously, five?