It seems perfectly normal that an auditorium of teenaged boys would react in an noisy, approving manner to sexy Nigella Lawson or sexy Bond girls. The writer's

It seems perfectly normal that an auditorium of teenaged boys would react in an noisy, approving manner to sexy Nigella Lawson or sexy Bond girls. The writer's "shocked, shocked!" manner is rather disingenuous. I find it surprising that they would have done likewise for Madame Curie (the photo in the blog post is not the slightest bit "sexy"). Maybe they were just trolling the speaker, since he had revealed himself to be somewhat humorless and scolding in his earlier comments on their responses?