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Related: About this forumNobel winner: Women in labs 'fall in love with you ... you criticize them, they cry'
By Monica Sarkar, CNN
A scientist and Nobel laureate has sparked criticism after saying women in laboratories "fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry." He also spoke in support of gender-segregated workplaces.
Tim Hunt made the remarks at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea. His comments were tweeted out by Connie St. Louis, director of the MA Science Journalism program at London's City University, who was also present at the gathering.
"We were all stunned," St. Louis told CNN. "I particularly was deeply embarrassed," she added, referring to an audience of about 100 people, who included female journalists from Korea and around the world.
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What a Misogynist SOB
CherokeeDem
(3,710 posts)...several labs, in fact. My problem was running from the bastards when they chased me around the lab benches. I never once fell in love with them or cried.
Misogynist bastard.
Don't get me wrong, I like male scientists. The majority are decent, wonderful people.
In full disclosure, I did fall madly in lust with a lab instructor once.... I was eighteen... he was gorgeous. I never acted on my lust.... just swooned when I saw him.
Warpy
(111,480 posts)No, Timmy, they're not in love with you. They do need your guidance about whether or not they're on the right track with their research and they do need a certain amount of approval. Ripping everything to shreds because your ego says you're god's greatest gift to the female sex is going to produce anger and disappointment, and that is what you are seeing.
Have you really looked at yourself lately? Adonis, you are not.
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)"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 criticise them they cry."
Leaving out that first part really biases it.
"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."
That's why office romances are frowned upon.