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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:18 AM Jun 2015

Nobel 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

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Nobel winner: Women in labs 'fall in love with you ... you criticize them, they cry' (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2015 OP
I was a woman in a lab once..... CherokeeDem Jun 2015 #1
What a totally self absorbed prat Warpy Jun 2015 #2
Ugh. Photoshop doesn't have a "trim nose hair" tool ? nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2015 #4
"you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry." bananas Jun 2015 #3

CherokeeDem

(3,710 posts)
1. I was a woman in a lab once.....
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:41 AM
Jun 2015

...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)
2. What a totally self absorbed prat
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:45 AM
Jun 2015

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.

bananas

(27,509 posts)
3. "you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry."
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:56 AM
Jun 2015

"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.

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