After Sexist Comments From Tim Hunt, Female Scientists Show Just How ‘Distractingly Sexy’ They Can Be

Female scientists took to Twitter this week to fire back at a Nobel laureate who said he was in favor of sex-segregated labs because women are distracting and “fall in love with you” and cry “when you criticize them.”

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Tim Hunt made his comments Monday during a speech at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea.

"Let me tell you about my trouble with girls,” Hunt said at the conference. “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."

Female scientists responded to Hunt’s sexist comments by uploading photos of themselves using the hashtag “#DistractinglySexy.”



Some call me a dirty girl, some call me a soil scientist. #distractinglysexy #womeninscience

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