Only five women have won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Award for Humor

An odd and amusing juxtaposition of articles today. From the New York Times there is Literary Consolation Prizes by Grant Snider.

And then there is Does the literary world need a women-only prize? by Husna Haq in the Christian Science Monitor. A perennially favorite topic among the whinging class. The article earnestly attempts to muster some facts to support the argument that there is some form of under-representation of women as recipients of various prizes but in doing so seems blithely blind to its own self-mockery.

– Only five women have won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Award for Humor since it was established 65 years ago.

Heh.