I am a regular receiver of emails from the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), and have now discovered their blog. A recent entry seems to imply that I missed a trick in high school when I declined to take any science after I struggled (and nearly failed) physics.
I keep telling you that chemistry is sexy, but do you listen? Nooooooo
while you may have found this through AIR, the original article appears to be from Inorganic Chemistry which is one of the publications of the American Chemical Society, quite a reputable group.
My grad research was also on organometallics (mostly platinum rather than ruthenium), but we didn’t do anything quite so overtly phallic. mind you, that was also thirty years ago.