LinkedIn can be a pretty weird place...While it's mostly used for networking and job searches, sometimes people treat it like Tinder. Or, in this young woman's case--a roast battle?Stephanie Suarez, who works for NASA, was minding her own business being a space genius...From running the mass spectrometer, to performing ion-exchange chromatography in the clean lab and finding zircons with a needle. #Geochronology and #geochemistry gave me my confidence back after dropping 'intro to chemistry' as a freshmen. #ScientistsWhoSelfie pic.twitter.com/l7g5eckte1— Stephanie E Suarez (@geologiststephy) March 18, 2018 ...when a monster of a man, an engineer at Chevron, decided to message her on LinkedIn.I just made my appointment for my second tattoo ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ and gonna redye my fire engine red hair this weekend. Got yelled at by an engineer at Chevron via linkedin for it. In my opinion commenting on someone's appearance is more unprofessional than what I have on my arms or hair. pic.twitter.com/U5jrHawAFl— Stephanie E Suarez (@geologiststephy) July 27, 2019 Tattoos and fun hair colors no longer prevent people from getting jobs in certain fields. This woman is clearly qualified and gainfully employed--why would he feel the need to attack her style? Does having dyed hair prevent her brain from solving NASA's scientific problems? Nope.Also, "a waiter from Midtown?" Is being a waiter a huge insult because most restaurants won't hire you unless you're conventionally attractive. This is insulting, classist and problematic on so many levels.Lucky for us, Suarez continued to tell us what happened when a woman asked why he started the conversation with a demeaning neg:Wow. Who opens a conversation with a statement โyou look like a waitressโ?— Eleanour Snow (@docsnowtx) July 27, 2019 Engineers at Chevron apparently. Him hitting on me is what started it. When I posted it on a public post asking for this to stop, people told me I was being unprofessional. I got a ton of hate messages. So I deleted my LinkedIn because I didn't feel safe on there anymore. pic.twitter.com/5LQczeV6mR— Stephanie E Suarez (@geologiststephy) July 27, 2019 This guy's LinkedIn flirting game is so weak. Why would you insult someone and then bother to throw in the "Sorry. Just being frank?" YOU'RE NOT SORRY, DUDE.*Ahem* you can choose to not hire me because of my hair or tattoo. However, I doubt you gotta long line of people that could troubleshoot a mass spectrometer in the middle of the night ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ. https://t.co/i7p99W9Zvg— Stephanie E Suarez (@geologiststephy) July 27, 2019 Of course, the internet was there for Stephanie.Please send this to @Chevron WITHOUT his identity hidden. He is representing their company— S โฅ (@ArbitrarySheri) July 28, 2019 BTW, as Peds trauma doc in a kid's hospital, I had flaming copper red hair & large quantities of henna on my hands. I was known as Red Sonia by those who were on a first name basis.For difficult procedures, nurses on 8 other floors would request doc with "tattoos on her hands".— ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฅSonia F. Khan ๐ฅ๐ดโโ ๏ธ (@sapienist) July 28, 2019 You shut him down for good!! ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผAlso, I might be biased, but I think anything that goes a bit out of what's normative in STEM is a bendition for it. Too many boring middle aged white men in suits if you ask me ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ— A SassyScience Christmas, PhD #BlackLivesMatter (@sassyscience_) July 28, 2019 I read that back and forth as:Man presumes woman with โunique lookโ is insecure and looking for attention.Woman responds she is quite confident and needs no such attention.Manโs ego is bruised, he goes into attack mode.— Information Junkie (@JustTheFacts37) July 27, 2019 Well, that's the classic I-tried-to-hit-on-you-and-you-rejected-me-so-I'll-insult-you move. A TRULY professional look! ๐Side note: I LOVE RED HAIR. โฅ๏ธ Only part I dislike is how fast it fades. Lol.— Anja Burฤak ๐ง (@CalculatingMind) July 27, 2019 I love how he goes from "you look cute" to insulting your looks in 3 messages. ๐— OurPolyLife ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ (@OurPolyLife) July 28, 2019 Reason #173,883 I'd rather work for @NASA than @Chevron! I've seen so much style on NASA engineers, and this a$$%@*e works for Chevron. Oh well, they're just missing out on good geologists!— Lori Pigue (@PlanetaryPiggy) July 27, 2019 I let my 12 yr old dye gus hair red for a festival last week (mine was pi k, I couldn't say no!) and someone told me it wasnt responsible parenting. whatever!!!!! pic.twitter.com/ti53EtEwfJ— helen. AKA Bridget ๐๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ (@hellyelly) July 27, 2019 17/10, would drink beers, talk rocks, and compare colorfastness of Arctic Fox vs Pulp Riot with a badass scientist every fucking day.— Angela Mayfield (@pinkrocktopus) July 27, 2019 โI had to express my candid feelingsโ NO. YOU REALLY DIDNโT. WHY DO MEN SAY THIS???— EmmaSkies (@EmmaSkies) July 28, 2019 She even did some sleuthing:I went through some very very old messages to find his name. Even though it's been a year, I'm still too scared to share it. I'm at a loss, on one hand I don't want this to happen to anyone else, but you all have really given me the confidence to do something about it.— Stephanie E Suarez (@geologiststephy) July 28, 2019 Great job, Stephanie! Keep being the fabulous STEM woman you are.