Female scientists have been sharing “distractingly sexy” photos of themselves after a feminist website encouraged them to respond to comments by a Nobel laureate.
Andrea Bidgood @Andreabigfoot Jun 11
#distractinglysexy hot science at work. Haven’t cried all week
Whoaaaaaaaa throw some cold water over me.
Many of them are hilarious, such as:
Morgan Kelly @MorganWKelly Jun 10
Smelled like dead oysters at the faculty meeting. Hope I wasn’t too #distractinglysexy
Jane Evans @jede39 Jun 10
@rhiannonlucyc @VagendaMagazine Indian rocket scientists #distractinglysexy
And Stephanie Evans, whose feed is full of STEM and women in STEM goodness:
Stephanie Evans @StephEvz43 Jun 10
Idk how any men were able to function when I was in this bunny suit and integrating a satellite. #distractinglysexy
Makes it hard to think straight, doesn’t she.
Smart women are pretty darned sexy, but if that prevents you from doing good science, you aren’t much of a scientist.
And if you let your attraction for a coworker interfere with *their* work, you’re far worse than “not much of a scientist”.
Shameful!
Philae was distracted by female comet landers
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/philae-was-distracted-by-female-comet-landers-2015061599239
Women are not allowed to work in a clean room without wearing a burqa.
Dammit. Now I have “I’m too sexy for this lab….too sexy for this lab…” stuck in my head.
HNO3—Me too!
“…and I do my little strut in my lab coat…”
Always happy to share an earworm.
I find competent people (whatever their gender) to be exciting, interesting, and (my lizard brain gets confused) yes, sexy. So I’d probably rate some of those as “distractingly sexy” but I’d keep my fucking mouth shut about it so as not to interrupt them while they’re doing their work. Sheesh, how hard is that?