UPDATE: We’ve announced the results of the poll and the winners of the August 2023 GenderMenace.net Gender Awards.
Shortcut: Click here to skip directly to three polling questions for the awards.
Welcome to the GenderMenace.net Gender Awards Poll for August 2023.
GenderMenace.net will make a best effort to publish the results of the Gender Awards for each month by the end of the week after each month. That means that the polling must end by the third day following the end of each month, for example, the polling deadline is end of the day on September 3, 2023, for the August 2023 Gender Awards Poll.
The Gender Awards have three categories:
- Gender Hero (most benefited gender-expansive communities)
- Gender Villain (most harmed gender-expansive communities)
- Gender Waffler (switched from benefiting to harming or vice versa)
GenderMenace.net receives nominations from nomination buttons/forms in each of these categories linked above on pages of the GenderMenace.net website plus by extracting candidates from articles published during the month of the award.
Criteria for evaluating award candidates include:
- Pioneering effect of original, creative, or ingenious benefits, harm, or waffling on gender-expansive communities
- Overall effect of candidates’s benefit, harm, or waffling on gender-expansive communities (# of people affected and amount of benefit, harm, or waffling)
- Proximity of candidate’s relevant activities to the current month with inclusion of ongoing activities as appropriate
To make an informed decision, you can start by searching for information on each candidate using the Search button on the upper right of each page of the GenderMenace.net website or by visiting the web section for each category using the links just above. You can also perform research on your own… we’d be glad to hear about any updates you’d like to post to the GenderMenace.net website!
This poll requires you to make one choice from up to a dozen award candidates appearing in random order in all three award categories plus entering your name and email address (used to try to prevent multiple voting from the same person). GenderMenace.net reserves the right to disqualify all poll entries that appear suspicious or bogus.
Choose the candidate (or candidate group) you feel is the most appropriate for the award by selecting one choice from each of the three polling questions below.