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Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by Nadya on Friday June 12, 2015 @01:47PM (#9707427)
>men fall in love with men, and women fall in love with women.

He didn't say that.

>Uh, "mocking" is very different from "crying".

With the above correction you've shown your political standing. Of course you see it as mockery. Most people are going to see it as them crying about his "sexism" over something he didn't actually say (that they were distractingly sexy).

If people were mocking him - more men would be mocking him for the second statement that they are "irresistible" to women and their bravado gets them all the ladies and they are having troubles working because of all the sex they are getting. But they aren't crying on Twitter because he said that women fall in love with them.

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Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by dragonwriter on Friday June 12, 2015 @01:57PM (#9707504)
> If people were mocking him - more men would be mocking him for the second statement that they are "irresistible" to women

The offensive part that is being mocked was not the description that women fall in love with men or vice versa.

The offensive part was that both of those were described by Hunt as parts of his "problem with girls...when they are in the lab".

That is, Hunt says:

1. Women fall in love with men (implicitly, to the detriment of the function of the lab) => problem with women

2. Men fall in love with women (implicitly, to the detriment of the function of the lab) => problem with women

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Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by Lawtonfogle on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:33PM (#9707711)
It would've been much better of him to express this as a problem with coed workplaces instead of making the issue the fault of either particular gender. The question is thus did he mean coed workplaces and just completely failed at expressing his intention or was his intention to be sexist.
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Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by Nadya on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:50PM (#9707824)
>"problem with girls...when they are in the lab".

This can be read two ways depending how you parse it.

That is, Hunt says:

1. Women fall in love with men (implicitly, to the detriment of the function of the lab) => problem with coed labs

2. Men fall in love with women (implicitly, to the detriment of the function of the lab) => problem with coed labs

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Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by dragonwriter on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:53PM (#9707845)
Your reading of "the problem with girls...when they are in the lab" requires the sexist assumption that the default state of labs is to include males, such that that a "problem with coed labs" is a "problem with girls...when they are in the lab", because, obviously, there's always going to be men in a lab.

So, either reading is sexist, though it is true that there are different ways in which it can be sexist.

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