folks are cleverly infecting anti-vaccination activists with computer viruses embedded in photos and links.

Please explain to me how a flag that represents a failed state which existed for only 4 years can possibly be interpreted as representing “Just the love of the south”.

Those people are either lying or are ignorant of history. The Confederacy was an explicitly racist state.

It shouldn’t be on federal/state land though, sorry. Have it at home.

If that’s the way he behaved towards women in his lab he will be hampering their ability to do great science. Because you know, a professor at that level is more the overseer of other people’s work than someone who has time to spend in the lab themselves. Which is why they need to be able to relate to subordinates in…

I feel really good knowing that you can’t get away with shit like telling a room full of women scientist that they have no place in lab. Joke or not.

Yes Yes YES.

He’s also hijacking a captive audience’s time and forcing them to be insulted to their faces at a supposed event to honor them! How fucking daft! The reality is that men (especially white ones) have no context on feeling shamed. As a whole, they aren’t used to this and when they personally experience it or…

Better yet, tell your jokes while in the role of an official speaker at a conference for encouraging minority students to pursue careers in science. Then see if you still have a job when you get back home; the only reason Hunt wasn’t let go was BECAUSE he was a Nobel laureate. That he eventually chose to resign shows…

So it’s only funny when it’s directed at women (because you don’t think they’ve had an equal amount of suffering as if that’s relevant) but black people are somehow different?

Awesome! Now take your show on the road! Go up to the first black person you see and do the same thing in your jokey manner. I’m sure no black person ever will find this offensive because they understand “context” and “nuance.”

“Jokes” that make a historically disenfranchised group a fucking punchline, especially in light of the fact that women are frequently shut out of science fields because of this crap, are rarely “funny.”

Not only did Hunt say completely reprehensible things, but he couldn’t even figure out that you don’t tell a room full of female scientists at a professional conference that they are lovesick crybabies. This is not a guy who should be in charge of anything.

No, that’s crap. That’s not at all what she was saying, and you know better than that.

Hey, look, everybody! I found somebody with daddy issues!

I find it somewhat amusing that we can play a game where we murder people, and no one really bats an eyelash

Blonde/blue eyed friend of mine went to Japan for a couple of weeks to see Tokyo and some of the countryside. According to her it was nothing but men gawking at her, standing uncomfortably close to her on public transit, and people asking if she was a model. Did wonders for her self confidence.

My friend of Nubian…

Along with the obvious sexism there is the creepy impression that the best Japanese girls have creamy white skin, blonde hair and round, blue eyes.

It’s possible he was only being inappropriate with one person at a time, in which case no one needed to tell him. (i.e. he pesters one coworker, stops when there’s a complaint, and moves on to the next coworker...)

Fucking hell. We are damned if we do and dead if we don’t.