Crying women have not been viewed as 'jocular' for some time now.
Tim Hunt: 'I've been hung out to dry. They haven't even bothered to ask for my side of affairs'
Hunt, who won the Nobel prize in 2001 for his work on cell biology, was the focus of widespread controversy last week after suggesting at a conference in Seoul that women in science were disruptive and prone to crying. He has since apologized for his remarks, which were supposed to be ironic and jocular, he said.
Remains me of something I've read in Archipelago Gulag: A zek engineer was in charge of an important project. The moment the project was finished, he was beaten and thrown in with criminals (as distinct from "politicals"---"you people are not irreplaceble"