Nobel-Prize-winning biochemist, Sir Tim Hunt, started grabbing headlines for his sexist comments at a conference in South Korea where he advocated single-sex labs.
"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," Hunt said.
Since then Female scientists all over the world have been tweeting pictures of themselves in their less than flattering workwear using the hashtag '#distractinglysexy' in a bid to show up Sir Hunt.
I don't know how my male dive buddies can concentrate on their underwater science when I look this #DistractinglySexy pic.twitter.com/tknAueKxx8
— Jennifer Loxton (@jenloxton) June 12, 2015
Best part of being a marine ecologist? No one can tell you're crying underH2O. Though wetsuits are #distractinglysexy pic.twitter.com/tX5cFmeFgm
— Angee Doerr (@andoerr) June 11, 2015
Yes I know I am #distractinglysexy in my Level A PPE. The suit totally flatters my curves. pic.twitter.com/LUb5nXx9yO
— Geeky Girl Engineer (@gkygirlengineer) June 11, 2015
Filter mask protects me from hazardous chemicals and muffles my woman cries. Double win! #DistractinglySexy pic.twitter.com/5kYlm6SNud
— Amelia Cervera (@ameliacervera) June 11, 2015
#distractinglysexy I cried when #Ebola patients died or when got better.I have feelings & I deal w them.So should you pic.twitter.com/XYMh7ykT5o
— Elisabetta (@RunningPostdoc) June 11, 2015
In the field because I'm too #distractinglysexy for the lab. Took ages to find a pic where I'm not crying #TimHunt pic.twitter.com/xtHGGCYmZm
— Jennifer Pannell (@jennypannell) June 11, 2015
It's just really hard working in a coed lab because I'm too distracting to the male scientists #distractinglysexy pic.twitter.com/9cZMUpy6TL
— Danielle Spitzer (@dspitzzz) June 11, 2015
