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
#41 My Today Research In The Large Format (de)press Fucktory. Yes, We Cunt!
9points
#42 Remember The Sunglasses And Hat, Otherwise You Are Too #distractinglysexy
9points
#43 I Find It Hard Not To Cry, Turtle Dna Is Too #distractinglysexy
9points
#44 Weee Weee!! Women Scientists Can't Handle Their Stuff
8points
#45 All My Coding Is #distractinglysexy
7points
#46 Coding And Creating Mobile Applications Is #distractinglysexy.
5points
#47 The Odor Of Dozens Of Rats Clinging To Me, Yes, #distractinglysexy
5points
#48 6:30 To 19:30 In Opencast Mines In Trucks 10m Off The Ground, Not A Single Beau Or Tear. Proud!
5points
#49 "i'm Crying On The Inside" #distractinglysexy #womeninscience
5points
#50 Entrepreneurship Is My Passion @jsnunki
4points
#51 As An Ecologist The Bats In A Loft Can Soak Up My Tears #distractingly Sexy
4points
#52 Working On The Mass Spectrometer Never Made Me Cry
3points
#53 It's So Hard To Not Fall Love With Rocks Like This!
3points
#54 #distractinglysexy #filteringsamples #womeninscience
1point
#55 And Then, All Silliness Aside, The Voice Of Common Sense And Decency...
-4points
