On June 9th, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Sir Tim Hunt shocked the world by making sexist statements about women scientists at a women scientists' conference in South Korea. "Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … three things happen when they are in the lab … You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry," the Nobel laureate said, advocating single-sex labs as well.
In response to his anachronistic and chauvinistic comments, women scientists around the world took to Twitter to show how wrong he really was, using hashtags like #distractinglysexy and #TimHunt. Women in science are encouraged to add their own pics below!
"Three things happen when [women] are in the lab... You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry," Tim Hunt said at a conference in South Korea
Image credits: biozentrum.unibas.ch
The #distractinglysexy hashtag was born in response:
Image credits: Twitter
#1 I'm Really Glad That Curie Managed To Take A Break From Crying To Discover Radium And Polonium
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#2 Filter Mask Protects Me From Hazardous Chemicals And Muffles My Woman Cries
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#3 I Cried When #ebola Patients Died Or When Got Better. I Have Feelings & I Deal W Them
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#6 Still #distractinglysexy After A Full Day Of Cell Culture. Didn't Even Cry This Time, So Proud!
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#7 I Fell In Love With The Microcentrifuge... Typical Woman In The Lab
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#8 I Made It Through These Brain Dissections Without Falling In Love Or Crying. Phew!
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#9 It's Just Really Hard Working In A Coed Lab Because I'm Too Distracting To The Male Scientists
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#10 Later That Day, I Filled This Bronze Age Ditch With My Womanly Archaeology Tears
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#11 Nothing Like A Sample Tube Full Of Cheetah Poop To Make You #distractinglysexy
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#13 Tears, Laughter, Romance, Dirty Dirty Flotation: Archaeology Makes Me So Hot Right Now
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#14 Women Researchers Are Too Hot To Have In The Lab - Even When We're Cold
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#16 Fighting Cancer Makes Us Hot!
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#18 Thank Goodness This Stuff Freezes My Tears... And My Cold Icy Heart.
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#19 I Had 3 Marriage Proposals After This Talk. Shame I Cried Too Much To Accept
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#20 Sorry We Can't Make Out Right Now, But I'm Busy. Please Don't Cry.
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