Women Scientists Tweet “Sexy” Work Pics In Response To Male Nobel Laureate’s Sexist Comments
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!
Image credits: #1 I'm Really Glad That Curie Managed To Take A Break From Crying To Discover Radium And Polonium
#ebola Patients Died Or When Got Better. I Have Feelings & I Deal W Them" href="http://www.boredpanda.com/i-cried-when-ebola-patients-died-or-when-got-better-i-have-feelings-i-deal-w-them-so-should-you/"> #3 I Cried When #ebola Patients Died Or When Got Better. I Have Feelings & I Deal W Them
#ebola Patients Died Or When Got Better. I Have Feelings & I Deal W Them" src="http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/tim-hunt-sexist-remarks-women-respond-scientists-71.jpg" alt="I Cried When #ebola Patients Died Or When Got Better. I Have Feelings & I Deal W Them" width="700" height="1152">
#4 Thankfully, Worker Bees Are All Female, Otherwise...
ReverendVeritas 1 year ago
...otherwise the male bees would demand her and the queen bee make them a sandwich?
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#distractinglysexy" href="http://www.boredpanda.com/oh-dont-mind-me-im-just-pipetting-while-being-distractinglysexy/"> #5 Oh Don't Mind Me. I'm Just Pipetting While Being #distractinglysexy
#distractinglysexy" src="http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/tim-hunt-sexist-remarks-women-respond-scientists-141.jpg" alt="Oh Don't Mind Me. I'm Just Pipetting While Being #distractinglysexy" width="700" height="705">
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Larry Hampton
9 years ago"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
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Larry Hampton
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Dean Moriarty
9 years agoNot gotten the chance to work with many female scientists I presume?
Kavika
9 years agoOur boy sounds desperate. Probably got turned down my one of those woman scientists....
Pouting isn't very manly...
Randy
9 years agoThe Marie Curie one was easily the best response IMHO. When I was in computers in the USAF every time we had a WAF (yes they were still WAF's back then (at least when I started. They switched over in about 1975)) as a Computer Operator they never let them work in the computer center itself doing actual computer operations, even though they graduated from the same computer tech school the men did. They always had them work in the tape library or doing some sort of general clerk work. They didn't want them working in the computer room alone with male operators. Beside I think the general feeling was that they were just going to get married and pregnant and discharged anyway. In the fours years of active duty I never saw one actually operating the computer systems. Ever.
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Larry Hampton
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Randy
9 years agoHard to fathom, how ridiculous. Great example Randy and thanks for sharing that.
Randy
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Larry Hampton
9 years agoThe military was very sexist back then. It was assumed that when a woman joined the Air Force it was because she was looking to snag a husband, hopefully a young officer, but a husband none the less. Of course if they did get married they could continue to serve unless they became pregnant and that was an automatic discharge. The military did not allow mothers of any kind to continue to serve.
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Larry Hampton
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Randy
9 years agoAs a mirror to that, medical laboratories across the US are (Im guessing from my own experience and that of colleagues) are about 80-85% female. Physicians base approximately 75% of their diagnosis on lab results. That means that women make the majority of actual clinical medical/scientific discovery/diagnosis. That is a direct result of shuffling women off to do the work, that male dominated medicine has determined is below the pay grade of a doctor (back then, mostly male).
Kavika
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Larry Hampton
9 years ago Anyone that thinks women don't make great scientists have never dealt with a grandmother. They have more remedies than most scientists can list. It's always best not to mess grandma...as many of us have found out through first hand experience.
Buzz of the Orient
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Kavika
9 years agoYou are SO right. When I was an infant my grandmother saved my life, when the doctors said I would not survive. I had a serious case of the croup, and was turning blue, and my grandmother poured hot chicken fat down my throat and saved my life. I don't think they teach medical students that remedy.
dave-2693993
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Kavika
9 years agoAbsolutely. My mother was the best "naturopath". She only passed when the FDA prevented a particular mushroom from being imported.
As a fellow Native, I would like to have a discussion with you some time.
Kavika
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dave-2693993
9 years agoHello dave, please feel free to contact me thru NT email or join the ''Anishinaabe'' group.
Welcome to NT.
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