What is a &quot;shame mob&quot;? Does it include the people who started #DistractinglySexy ? Does it include people who post &quot;I thing Hunt&#x27;s comment was sexist&quot;? Does it include people who say &quot;I do not think we should invite Hunt for our next &#x27;Women in Science&#x27; conference&quot;? Does it include the UCL ruling council?<p>Or is it a much more limited set of people who, say, send death threats? As a reminder, and quoting from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;jul&#x2F;09&#x2F;tim-hunt-sexism-controversy-ucl-attempts-to-draw-a-line-under-saga" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;jul&#x2F;09&#x2F;tim-hunt-sexi...</a> :<p>&gt; One female scientist who commented in the media after the story broke told the Guardian she had received “such a torrent of abuse” on social media and blogs that she could no longer face speaking publicly on the matter. Other female scientists who spoke out had apparently also received death threats. “We’ve all been silenced. It’s quite shocking really,” she said. “It’s just not worth the aggro of waking up to calls for me to be sacked on Twitter and hundreds of messages. It was so frustrating to see the perpetrator becoming the victim.”