My #distractinglysexy hashtag is not to blame for Tim Hunt’s resignation | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Until women are given more of a voice and power in traditional organisations, calling out sexism on social media often remains our only recourse

Last week I started the hashtag #distractinglysexy, in response to Nobel prizewinning scientist Tim Hunt's ill-advised comments about men falling in love with over-emotional women in laboratories. Despite claims that the response to Hunt's comments constituted an online "march of the feminist bullies", no one who was part of this humorous attempt to highlight the varied and complex work of female scientists called for Hunt's resignation or hounded him online, but that was the way it was framed.

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