‘Trouble with girls?’ Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with #DistractinglySexy photos

[MohRokTah]

‘Trouble with girls?’ Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with #DistractinglySexy photos

LONDON -- Female scientists were jumping on Twitter on Thursday to voice their views on the controversial comments by a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist, who spoke about his "trouble with girls" when working in laboratories.

Speaking at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea, Sir Tim Hunt reportedly said: "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 72-year-old biochemist has since resigned his post as an honorary professor with University College London. He also apologized for his remarks, telling the BBC that it was a “very stupid thing” to say in front of journalists, but that “I did mean the part about having trouble with girls."

He told the broadcaster: "I have fallen in love with people in the lab and people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that in a lab people are on a level playing field.”

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Washington Post Link

And you MUST look at some of the #DistractinglySexy photos!

[FSogol]

1. K & R. Check out the photos at the link. Hilarious! n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

2. I wanna see Marie Curie flashing some ankle. nt

[frazzled]

3. My favorite tweets (from the NYT article)

Prof. Sophie Scott of University College London, who researches the neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter, wrote on Twitter, “I am in the office, but I can’t do my science work as I saw a photograph of Tim Hunt and now I’m in love, dammit.”

Here, btw, is a picture of the Nobel laureate these female scientists just can't help falling in love with:



Runner up:

Kate Devlin, a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, added in a Twitter post of her own, “Dear department: please note I will be unable to chair the 10am meeting this morning because I am too busy swooning and crying.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/europe/tim-hunt-nobel-laureate-resigns-sexist-women-female-scientists.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[central scrutinizer]

6. She has the vapors

Of course, this could actually be the case with a chemist who was careless.

[gregcrawford]

21. I'm sure he drives all the little girls wild...

... if they're inclined to fall in love with an old boot.

Just goes to show that you can be all Nobel-laureate at some things, and dumber than a bag of hammers about others.

[rpannier]

31. He's right up there the Sex Muffin Pat Robertson

How do those women control themselves around him?

[arcane1]

4. There's no payback quite like a Twitter payback

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. yeah. his sexy hair nose has been twittered about

[Helen Borg]

10. He's a real stud...

I can see any young woman falling in love with this dude. Wonder if there was sexual harassment going in that lab, honestly. And he was projecting all along, thinking they were the ones falling in love... Scary...

[MohRokTah]

8. Yep.

You cannot withstand a twitter storm you create yourself.

[hatrack]

7. Absolutely brilliant - one of the best Twitter streams I've ever seen!

[Rex]

9. LOL!

"I managed to collect a water-vapor sample without crying OR falling in love. Phew! #distractinglysexy"

"Nobody will notice my tears when I cry into these floodwaters, which smell like dog feces and fish #DistractinglySexy"

"Still #distractinglysexy after a full day of cell culture. Didn't even cry this time, so proud! #HeyaTimHunt"

[Number23]

11. "Here I am, shoulder deep in cow rectum. So seductive!"

From https://twitter.com/hashtag/distractinglysexy?src=hash

I am in love with every single woman on that Twitter feed. Deep, profound, REAL love.

[spooky3]

42. Hahaha!

[sarge43]

12. Nothing like eau du cheetah to tip the playing field.

Hand salute for the women scientists. 'tis better to get snarky than mad.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. Cracking up!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. I keep thinking of all of the right-wingers who bragged about Milton Friedman.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. I can't help it- I'm in love with all these women

Class A brains and class A smart ass- the perfect combo

[hifiguy]

26. First class snark can be a very attractive quality. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

27. Indeed. nt

[gratuitous]

16. Let's see how smart Sir Tim is

Will this episode teach Sir Tim a long overdue lesson in messing with smart women, or will he push all his chips into the middle of the table while holding a deuce-trey-six-ten-library card?

[packman]

17. Sheldon is a distraction to Amy

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[Sheldon Cooper]

18. It's not my fault that Amy doesn't recognize my greatness.

[SunSeeker]

19. Hilarious. What a douchebag this guy is. nt

[yellowcanine]

20. First of all, dickhead, women working in your lab are not "girls."

And second, you are a sexist pig.

[red dog 1]

34. + 1

You nailed it!

[marble falls]

22. Sorry. I've always found smart women my age pretty darn sexy. His comments were about himself...

not generalizations about "all" women or "all" men. People get close at work.

I think why he said "girls" was that at his advanced age he is recalling a time starting out his career many years ago when he still thought of himself as a "boy".

This is an exception that maybe proves some sexist rule somewhere. But this exception is truly innocent.

[passiveporcupine]

23. The funniest comment I read was from a guy

"I just told my particle physicist friend that she had nice bosons and then she lepton me."

Mark Lorch

[Beartracks]

40. #Distractinglysexy pun FTW!! n/t

[Snow Leopard]

24. what a great response

from those women(and men). Awesome stuff!

[hifiguy]

25. Well, he managed to hit his foot on the first try.

Bet that hole in it hurts like hell though. I thought Brits were more careful with guns.

[Duckhunter935]

28. Good for them

What a stupid thing for him to say.

[rpannier]

32. Further proof that being a genius

doesn't make you smart

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. This one was great....

[DRoseDARs]

36. "Some call me a dirty girl, some call me a soil scientist."

That really is the perfect one, isn't it?

[Hekate]

37. Brilliant! My favorite

[rpannier]

30. Shouldn't have said it in front of journalists

How about, 'He shouldn't have said it or thought it at all'

[Arugula Latte]

33. What a dipshit.

Glad it blew up in his face, much like a chemical reaction in a test tube.

[red dog 1]

35. What an asshole!

[Hekate]

38. Funniest thing I've read all year-- comedy gold. Those women are terrific.

[jalan48]

39. This guy is seriously weird.

Don't we want our best people being educated in their chosen field, regardless of their sex?

[leftyladyfrommo]

41. Sounds to me like he's the one with the problem.

He needs to work in a lab by himself.

[fbc]

43. to paraphrase Bill Burr: "He's 72 years old, what do you expect him to say?"

Old people say stupid things sometimes. You can choose to acknowledge that it was a stupid thing to say without making the sum total of this man's life about one attempt at humor that fell flat.