Tom Martin, a former gender studies student at the London School of Economics, recently became a minor celebrity amongst Men’s Rights activists and other angry men when he sued his alma mater for alleged sexism against men.
He’s now had his case thrown out of court. Let’s go to the Camden New Journal for details:
Tom Martin, 39, who lives in Covent Garden, claimed he suffered “anti-male discrimination” while studying for a master’s degree in gender, media and culture at the world-famous university in Holborn.
Representing himself at his application for a trial at the Central London County Court on Tuesday, Mr Martin complained of a lack of men-only sessions in the university’s gym and the preponderance of posters in the corridors advertising services for women without the presence of similar materials geared towards men.
Mr Martin, who describes himself as a feminist, said “hard” chairs in the library were uncomfortable for men and that a “male blaming culture” was evident in course materials, which “ignored men’s issues” and focused on wrongs done by them.
Damn those misandrist chairs and their man-hating hardness!
The judge didn’t buy it, saying Martin’s case had essentially no chance of success. He threw out the case and ordered Martin to pay LSE’s legal costs.
Martin, welcome to reality.
On Twitter, Martin responded to the news by calling his critics “whores.” One of many examples:
But I was really discriminated against, you whores!
And, yes, his Twitter handle is indeed Sexismbusters.org.
EDITED TO ADD: Actual headline today on What Men are Saying About Women:
EDITED AGAIN TO ADD: Tom Martin has replied to this post in the comments. Some highlights:
My legal complaint did NOT involve a complaint about the seating. You have been misled by the press – The Times and the West End Extra/Camden New Journal both mysteriously got it wrong.
One year prior to joining the university, when visiting its library, I did complain, that the seating being hard created a greater disadvantage for men than for women, as men have considerably smaller weight-bearing buttock pads than women, and men are heavier too – so for men, on average heavier than women, have more weight bearing down onto a pad which is approximately four times smaller than women’s on average – according to a BBC documentary on the subject.
He then details his attempts to fight this grave injustice. Also, there’s this:
[S]everal comments here are confusing ‘whore’ with ‘slut’. A slut has sex freely, which I am all for. Freedom of association is the ultimate in humanity. A whore charges for sex. Even if a woman is a virgin, but is waiting for Mr Right to buy her something, she’s a whore.
It’s counter-intuitive, but a lot of professional feminists are whores. They expect the government and men to do them special favours. They make up stories to convince men and government to believe that we all owe women something.
But really, if someone were keeping a tab, then…
Women owe men five years pension.
Women owe men some National Service.
Women owe men some inventions.
Women owe men positive discrimination in university curricula.
Women owe men some child access.
It’s women’s round at the bar too.
For the whole thing, see here.
For more charming quotes from Tom, see this post on the blog Butterflies and Wheels.
NOT THE C-WORD!!! To the color codes! Man the battle stations! SHAMING LANGUAGE INCOMING!!!
I needs to check these dudes out, I’ve fallen so far behind when it comes to rock. The last album I listened to was Zeitgeist :$
@Holly
The mammoth promised unfettered access to the pussy of our choice, and women are making liars out of the mammoth dammit!
Crap, the video didn’t embed properly.
Well, I don’t know about that. I think They Might Be Giants can give Cake a run for their money, lyrics-wise.
I do find it remarkable that so many of the Giants’ latest songs seem to be about brain injury or damage.
@Kladle
aww crap…the MRA police are gonna arrest me now lol…creeeeeeeeeeps.
@Ithiliana
can I just say thank you for always posting informative links? I’d read em now but bookmarked them for later cuz I’m buzzed right now xD
You know, this Martin guy reminds me of Arnold Rimmer in so many ways.
Specifically I’m thinking about how Rimmer would refuse to discuss something (e.g. shutting him down to run another hologram) by declaring “black card” and presuming that’s an end to it.
Also they’re both complete twits.
YES MR. MARTIN THIS UNCOUTH COLONIAL CALLED YOU A TWIT HOW’D’YOU LIKE THEM APPLES
I figured it out: Tom is secretly Frank Miller.
WHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORES…PROSTITUTES.
I always figured the kind of woman who would go out with an MRA either has low self-esteem or an untreated head injury.
I really, honestly think this is insulting to people with head injuries. Getting in a car accident is no reason to be equated with this joker.
AAAA QUACKERS YOU USED THE C-WORD, CODE PUCE, CODE PUCE!!!!
For reals, it’s Code Tan. I wonder if there’s a code for selective replying?
The mammoth promised unfettered access to the pussy of our choice, and women are making liars out of the mammoth dammit!
Totally read “making out with the mammoth,” which is totally what ALPHA FUCK BITCHES would do. It’s not the size of the trunk, ladies!
I thought MRAs favored prostitution anyway, since all none prostitute women are fat or too old or hypergamous or whatever.
Funny how MRA arguments tend to always come down to using another human being for their sexual pleasure. WAHHHHHH…OPPRESSIONZ!!!
Stop using shaming language, you whores!
This dude is hilarious. Unintentionally so, but still. I feel so bad for whichever poor professor had to teach him for a while. How do you keep a straight face in front of a class with someone spouting that kind of babble at you?
Falconer, just drop the URL into
I’ll still go with cake over TMBG, even though I’m a big fan of the latter too, because a lot of TMBG lyrics strike me as more goofy or off-the-wall, while I think Cake lyrics are more straight-up clever. TMBG also do more covers. They’re both great, lyrically and musically, though.
If that’s not insane troll logic I don’t know what is.
Poor white people. Whatever shall they do.
Oh, that was GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. Thanks.
Holy half-finished sentence, Batman! Just drop the URL straight into the post.
Since as a Brit “trunk” means something different to me than it probably means to most Americans, my brain popped up an image of someone attempting to make out with The Luggage there. Um, that’s not a good idea.
(Yay medication, the feeling loopy part can be kind of fun.)
I wish you luck with that! I play trombone, myself. If you’d accept a bit of unasked-for advice: I find that difficult notes come easier for me if I don’t strain for them. Try experimenting with moving your mouthpiece up a bit for the higher notes (so you have more mouthpiece on your upper lip than on your lower). And try learning as many styles as you can (classical, jazz, rock, blues, etc.) to widen your repertoire.
Are you learning trumpet in school or as a hobby?
Oh, and it’s a good thing when the rock band isn’t so loud that the musicians can’t hear each other!
No, that’s not a great idea.
For some reason now I’m reminded of the makeover The Luggage gets in the course of Pratchett’s Priscilla, Queen of the Desert revue.
Now this is just comical. I thought Tom actually was a little bit smarter and more noteworthy than the regular trolls on this site but I’m now sorely mistaken. How disappointing. This is indistinguishable from the incoherent ramblings of AntZ or another one of our guests here.
Some of you want to know why I think prostitution is bad.
1. Sex is only ever any good when it is based on mutual attraction.
2. Charging for sex excludes men who cannot afford it, thus heightening male-on-male competition for money, which generates the conditions for war.
3. Prostitutes spend so long being pounded on, without orgasm, that it causes a condition akin to ‘blue balls’ in men – I think it’s referred to as ‘pelvic block’ in women, but has other names too, where veins in the female pelvic region become over-pressurized, causing pain and swelling. In some cases, an operation is required to release the pressure. You will see it in some porn stars. Their rectum will look swollen, and the tissue either side of the vaginal area too.
4. Prostitutes spend so long on the job, it stops them making better use of their lives. It hinders their emotional and intellectual development.
5. Prostitutes express more misandry than the average woman. Being a prostitute is misandry-inducing, or perhaps misandrists are more likely to choose prostitution, but either way, prostitution correlates with misandry – and misandry is bad, as it perpetuates fear or mistrust of men, which perpetuates sex segregation, which perpetuates male-on-male competition, which increases brain capacity for aggression (in both sexes), whilst decreasing brain capacity for empathy and higher thought.
6. Prostitution is an aggregate sex segregation, as prostitutes take themselves out of the free association and free sex zone, and wait for paying customers – and though paying customers and prostitutes are not sex-segregating whilst having sex, she quickly has to get him out to do the next customer, so there is less organic natural association between the sexes throughout the course of the day – and the association which does take place is fake or bought, rather than free association.
7. Prostitutes are boring.
8. There is no Nobel Prize for services to prostitution for a reason.
9. Gold-diggers are more stupid than average women.
10. Housewives are more fascistic than average women.
11. Economically inactive female model societies are more fascistic than normal societies.
12. Men associating with prostitutes or economically inactive gold-digger housewhores etc are more fascistic than average men.
13. Prostitution was the historic norm, and civilizations have less prostitution as they advance, so less prostitution probably related to advancement.
14. Less prostitutional sex-segregated societies produce better more balanced ratio of women to men (more women), causing men to make more sensible, less rash or flashy spending decisions.
I’m sure there are many more related reasons I could go into, about why prostitution is bad.
I think it should be fully legalized, but that these women should pay the highest rate of tax, and be first draft in any military conscription.
OMG I COULD NOT WRITE A PIECE THAT HILARIOUS EVEN IF I TRIED.
O______o
care to back any of these statements with facts Tom?
But it would be lavender-scented!
Everything is ALL the fault of the WHORES.
I see.
I’m going to have to see a doctor. I think my sides have literally split from laughter at reading your latest, Mr. Martin.
And global warming is caused by a LACK OF PIRATES.
I think I like this guy. He’s good for a laugh.
I am very interested in reading the study that links housewives to fascism in particular