/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.7324218]

ITT: women in STEM make a Nobel laureate resign
http://www.sciencealert.com/female-scientists-fire-back-hilariously-on-instagram-after-nobel-laureate-s-sexist-comments

[Anonymous No.7324221]

>>7324218
tbh what he said was completely correct. unfortunately men are so beta today that women really have no choice to treat them like retards.

[Anonymous No.7324226]

>>7324218

cunts gonna be cunty

[Anonymous No.7324229]

>>7324221
He also admitted to being a chauvinist pig, acknowledging his sexism. It's not like what he said is a universal constant. Though it has likely happened to him specifically given his views on women.

So he talked some shit, they talked some shit back, he resigned. C'est la vie.

[Anonymous No.7324233]

>>7324229
It is in fact a universal constant, just as your status as a turbofaggot and maximum redditor is a universal constant.

[Anonymous No.7324235]

>>7324218

Wow, I really respect women in science now that I've seen them post pictures of themselves online with captions insisting they aren't like the other girls. So brave and non-stereotypical. It's exactly the sort of quirky and funny selfies twitter campaign I'd expect the likes of Niel Borhs and Richard Feynman to engage in were they around today.

[Anonymous No.7324241]

>>7324218
Why do people resign after some autist idiot fails at reading comprehension?

They've got a saying back home: "I am responsible for what I say, not for what you understand."

[Anonymous No.7324245]

>>7324229

[Anonymous No.7324248]

>>7324241
Because a large majority of people will mindlessly support said comments and join forces in the endless backlash against whoever the comments were directed to. Given that he was a Nobel Prize winner, having such a large amount of people berating you would be both embarrassing and shameful. I don't blame him for giving in.

[Anonymous No.7324249]

>hurr durr we can do science too
>post pictures of gloried lab assistants

[Anonymous No.7324265]

Is there actually a transcript of what he said anywhere? I'm just finding chopped up he-said-she-said quotes. Allegedly he "thanked all the female journalists for making lunch".

[Anonymous No.7324272]

>>7324233
I wish, I'd start some kind of backlash and get you to move out of boxers and get off the Internet.

[Anonymous No.7324275]

>>7324272
>Cunt detected

[Anonymous No.7324288]

>>7324265
Only of his not-apology

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/10/nobel-scientist-tim-hunt-female-scientists-cause-trouble-for-men-in-labs

The amount of beta in this though
>I did mean t-the part about uhhh having trouble with girls

[Anonymous No.7325669]

>>7324218
it was a stupid thing to say
and it was incorrect.

why? hes generalizing. there a of course women to wich this applies, and there are some legitemately cool. hes taking up a dump on the respectable demographs.

also this is not what we need. we need to appreciate the ones that are cool. form a general cult where everyone, especially cool women look down upon those that behave childish.
lumping everyone in the same basket and disrespecting them is just a bad idea/thing to do.

[Anonymous No.7325867]

>>7325669
>failing for fabricated outrage
He wasn't saying "all women X", he simply said "X happened to me". Gendered labs are a stupid idea indeed, but he was just telling a personal experience and how it affected his views on the matter. The reaction (and I don't mean only the size of it) has been completely disproportionate to his actual comments.

I'm also betting that his words in full context (which is not available yet) are even more tame.

[Anonymous No.7325879]

>>7325669
It was a joke made at the evening dinner of a conference you retard.

It was exactly akin to someone at a conference making a speech including the joke
"how can you tell whether a mathematician is an extrovert? They look down at your shoes while talking to you rather than their own shoes"
Imagine that joke being told and then mathematicians all over the world collectively bitching "that's prejudice, it perpetuates totally dated, inaccurate, prejudiced stereotypes against mathematicians. It's totally unacceptable in this day and age"

That's what has happened.

[Anonymous No.7325882]

Everyone knows Nobel prizes are bullshit anyway.

[Anonymous No.7325892]

>>7325879
This anon is right. Everybody needs to chill the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.7325911]

>>7324288
>Linking the guardian
Jesus Christ that paper is so overtly terrible. Completely unreliable in issues like this.

[Anonymous No.7325912]

>>7324235
Feynman would totally encourage scientists with hot tits posting selfies on the internet.

[Anonymous No.7325913]

>>7324218
It was only an honorary post anyway. Dosen't really matter.

>tfw no women in theoretical physics
thank god

[Anonymous No.7325914]

People need to start learning how to discern the intention behind words, and to separate intent from meaning.

[Anonymous No.7325933]

most of what he said has some truth in it.
stem work can be very lonely..
I wish romance was allowed during stemwork. we all need a hug and cuddle sometimes when we mess up our triple integrals. normies can't understand this sort of pain and brush us off as crazies.


guys in stem get lonely and a girl appears in lab. guy wants to get it on, but realizes he might get into trouble for romancing in the lab. the girl realizes this as well, but is better able to control her emotions and keep a friendship going. guys tend to get mean and rude to girls once they're not potential mates (aka start treating us like one of the guys). every girl is a princess kitten though and likes hugs not punches. so we cry.

[Anonymous No.7325938]

>>7325933
>that pic
oh god why

[Anonymous No.7325948]

>>7325913
>thank god
Don't be idiotic. Competent people are competent people, regardless of gender. Of course when you mix different genders sexual dynamics appear, but the point is that you need to be clever enough to not let this kind of thing influence your work. It's not something hard to do, and the more contact you have with girls the easiest it is to reach that stage.

[Anonymous No.7325950]

>>7325938
because stem can make us cry sometimes :'(

also this is a picture of some biologist feeding the mosquitos they are studying. they prefer to feed off of fresh blood rather then samples, so some of them use their own arms for feeding.
they described the sensation too. it's uncomfortable the first few times, but you get used to it. it's not as painful as it seems because the stings are spread out and not localized, so you just get a puffy arm and warming sensation. it goes down after a couple of hours if you're used to it.
it's a great example of being devoted to what you do if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.7325956]

>>7325950
seems like a better idea to bleed into a petri bowl

[Anonymous No.7325959]

>>7325933
>>7325950
Why are you pretending to be a girl

[Anonymous No.7325967]

>>7325948
It dosen't influence my work at all. It is more that I would like to avoid the consequences of saying something "sexist" outside of 4chan.

[Anonymous No.7325969]

>>7325959
how did you know I'm a mermaid?

[Anonymous No.7325990]

>>7325933
It looks like all the drinking mosquitoes are facing the same direction, what's with that? If you stick your arm into the swarm and they land wherever I'd expect them to be facing random directions.

[Anonymous No.7326012]

>>7325990
maybe they're testing a sort of repellant and it gave those results? could be on accident really.

[Anonymous No.7326046]

>>7325933
gay as fuck

[Anonymous No.7326496]

>>7325912

[Anonymous No.7326522]

>>7324218
>biochemist
>Physiology or Medicine

[Anonymous No.7326677]

>>7324218
Just because you won something, doesn't mean you're always right

How fucking retarded can a board be, which supposedly lionizes science, a discipline that is emphatically not based on appeals to authority, but then only ever appeals to authority

Not even clicking your clickbait

[Anonymous No.7326780]

>>7324218
>none of them in a hard science

lel, looks about right