#distractinglysexy (WARNING! Entirely suitable for work)

Subject: #distractinglysexy (WARNING! Entirely suitable for work)
From: Alex Kemp
Date: Friday, 12 June 2015 22:54:50 +0100
To: Oliver Kemp, Micaela Kemp, Liisa Kemp, Davin Kemp

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-33099289
https://twitter.com/hashtag/distractinglysexy

Sir Tim Hunt FRS is a 72 year old Nobel laureate (physiology/medicine, 2001, for his work on how cells divide) and, until recently, an honorary professor with the University College, London (UCL) Faculty of Life Sciences. Then, on June 9 2015, he made the mistake of actually saying exactly what he thought about women in science. In front of a crowd of journalists (it was at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea). He 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

when you criticise them they cry

It’s only 36 words.
The twiterati went ballistic.

Soon, the collective humour gathered around the hashtag: #distractinglysexy, and it’s *really* good:

And of course there were plenty of wry jokes

Sadly, Sir Tim is no longer an honorary professor with UCL. They sacked him.

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Alex Kemp