I understand wanting to share a last name with your kids. It is convenient. What I don’t understand is automatically assuming that it’s the woman who must change in order to have the same name as her kids. Nope, my kids have my name. Suck it patriarchy!

I respect people’s right to make their own decision, but it bewilders me when people are willing to get rid of their own name because they have negative feelings about family members who share the name. I don’t see why the fact that it is your name and always was your name isn’t enough. Also, as someone who is married…

“Good! Don’t take his name. By the 3rd or 4th wedding it’s just a hassle.”

Absolutely keep your name!!

I took my husband’s name when we married mainly because my name was long and complicated and I didn’t mind giving it up for his simple last name. HOWEVER. I tell any young woman whom I think might listen to me to keep her name. Use his name socially if you so choose, but LEGALLY don’t…

I can confidently say that my dick has not suffered during this difficult time. Thank you for your concern.

Yesterday Ellie Shechet published an article about Birthright and how she’s ambivalent about Israel. She needs to get it straight. Israel is a settler-colonial, apartheid state that systematically annexes land and slaughters innocent people.

Boys react so emotionally to women joking around with each other, don’t they!?

Yeah, a Nobel Prize winning scientist isn’t quite the same thing as The Guy At the End Of the Bar.

In general, I totally agree that the internet overreacts far too often. But I think in this case, the person in question is (was?) in a powerful and influential position, and the reaction - at least in terms of this hashtag - has been pretty witty.

Unfortunately, Tim Hunt isn’t the only man or person with these opinions. He just voiced a perspective that is felt by us women in science, but that is not often explicitly discussed.

Do you really honestly and truly believe it’s just one person? Or do you think that this reaction comes from, say, decades of hearing the same stupid shit this dude just said only from many science teachers, math teachers, lab techs, classmates, and idiots on the internet? Do you think that having a Nobel Prize…

Right, because people in power cannot effect your life in a negative way, right? Right...? Derp.

Nah, not when the common refrain is “there are so few women in STEM,” because look, men who make the fields a volatile workplace are the reason why.

I don’t see anyone freaking out. I see a lot of people cracking jokes to make fun of a dumb opinion.

We need to promote more women into science. And if it all stems from a narrow-minded, sexist and insulting comment from a Nobel Prize winner, I’ll take it!

It’s not fair to ask me not to fall in love when the awesomeness is laid out before me like that. (Awesome like space-travel. Not like hot dogs)

Yeah but when that 1 person is celebrated for having better brains than most of those other 6.5 billion, with orders of magnitude more voice and reach, it’s important to smack them down.

Totally. We shouldn’t get pissed when people in high positions of power spew offensive and discriminatory statements. Its not like anyone might look up to them, or take it as acceptable behavior.

Meh. I would hardly call this “freaking out” and it seems it’s resulted in women being proud of their brains and their sense of humour. I’d call that a win.

That is how to do it, sure. I think it’s also important to remember that if you truly have nothing, “make more money” is no more helpful than “spend less than you earn.”