It's Dangerous to go Alone

I was recently asked to write a budget for some "professional development" funds that I receive as part of the fellowship that I'm currently on. In it, I asked for $1000 to pay an assistant.  But I phrased it as "Since it is unsafe to conduct field work alone, I would like to mentor a female undergraduate to promote women in science." (this is a women in science fellowship I'm on btw).

So my Advisor comes up to the lab to ask me about that. And he says, "if it's so dangerous to go alone, why are you asking for a woman? Shouldn't you be asking for a big strong man?" (he's being sarcastic)

"First of all, that's sexist. Second of all, this is for the Women in Science fellowship. It's got to be a girl"

"Maybe you should ask for something more than an assistant. Like a gun."

"You mean like the Komen pink hand gun?"

And hilarity followed. I was brilliant.  I have Komen's new slogan....

"Doctor's don't kill cancer. ((cocks gun)) I do!"

But really, back to the whole girl assistant thing, this was the image I had in my head during the whole conversation:

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/002/258/1143362243714.jpg?1242243718

p.s. I know the Komen hand gun thing was the manufacturer and not actually Komen...but it was still funny in the conversation.