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.
I Googled “pelvic block” and got this. (Safe for work.)
All hilarity aside, Tom, reading about the mechanics of sex has been a part-time hobby of mine for the past four years, and this is the first time I’ve heard of this condition. I’ve been banged many, many times without orgasming, and I’m far from needing surgery. Are you sure this is actually real?
Actual tears of laughter here. Especially 8 and 10. “Fascistic Housewives, now on its 8th season on ABC…”
I can’t keep reading this, tears of laughter are not conducive to gaming. STOP OPPRESSING MY GAMING TOM!!
12. Men associating with prostitutes or economically inactive gold-digger housewhores etc are more fascistic than average men.
The prostitutes and “housewhores” are of course entirely to blame for this. Mmm-hmm.
Also wow, “Prostitutes spend so long on the job, it stops them making better use of their lives. It hinders their emotional and intellectual development.”
You might want to go over to Jiz Lee’s site (NSFW), Tom. They have a charity called Karma Pervs, where they sell amazing photography and give the money to hospitals, do website design in between shoots, and talk about gender theory. Hardly the dumb and cold whore you’re imagining all sex workers to be.
Seriously Martin, if the name whorefinder wasn’t already taken I’d dub you with it.
Concern trolling for sex workers now? Hmm..why do they magically rate such tenfer care from you? But not say..your mother?
Citations needed to back your claims. Preferably more than “some Harvard study” from the pulleditouttamyass deparment of non scholarly studies.
Ok, I’m gonna take the bait even though I know that about 34 of you are writing back right now.
1. Sex is only ever any good when it is based on mutual attraction.
Good observation. So if sex should be based on mutual attraction, shouldn’t sex only occur if both parties want it? You’ve already established that prostitutes should work for free, which effectively legalizes rape.
2. Charging for sex excludes men who cannot afford it, thus heightening male-on-male competition for money, which generates the conditions for war.
So the natural resource of WHORES should be shared freely among men? You realize that this makes women non-people, right? And that your belief that women are not people is non-feminist?
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.
How cute that you think you understand what it’s like for a woman to be a prostitute. I laugh, but it’s a bitter laugh, because I know how traumatic it actually is for women to be continually abused by johns, and it has absolutely nothing to do with “blue balls”.
4. Prostitutes spend so long on the job, it stops them making better use of their lives. It hinders their emotional and intellectual development.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
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.
Prostitutes hate abusive men, therefore they should stop charging men to have sex with them and just do it for free with anyone who asks, because this way nobody will have to hate abusive men. *brain explodes*
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.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
7. Prostitutes are boring.
Seriously, what the fuck planet do you come from?
8. There is no Nobel Prize for services to prostitution for a reason.
Because orgasms are not really the pinnacle of human achievement? Because there’s no way a smart woman can have sex for pay????
9. Gold-diggers are more stupid than average women.
WHORES WHORES WHORES WHORES WHORES ANYONE WHO WON’T DATE ME IS A WHORE AND STUPID.
10. Housewives are more fascistic than average women.
Does this somehow relate to prostitution, and how on Earth did you come up with this?
11. Economically inactive female model societies are more fascistic than normal societies.
Therefore, women should have jobs. (I think Tom took the same social studies courses that NWOSlave took.)
12. Men associating with prostitutes or economically inactive gold-digger housewhores etc are more fascistic than average men.
I’m starting to think Tom doesn’t like fascism. Or maybe he just likes using the word fascistic because of the gorgeous sound of it?
13. Prostitution was the historic norm, and civilizations have less prostitution as they advance, so less prostitution probably related to advancement.
Really? Do we have less prostitution? Source please?
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 gonna start using the word “prostitutional” more often.
Imagine grading this dude’s papers. “How housewhores caused the rise of Mussolini – a radical new theory” by Anti-Feminist Feminist.
I wanted to joke about a Whorefinder General but as I thought about the witchfinder general I grew me a sad.
Turns out I can’t joke about violence against women. Who’d’a thunk it? [/sarcasm]
this troll is a keeper.i’ve been reading some of his other stuff that David linked and it’s like watching a car crash in slo-mo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mx5ERj1eI
Cake! I once quoted that song in an art history class when discussing symbolism in a Renaissance painting. “Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell, like that song by Cake.” It was met with dead silence and disapproving looks.
P.S. I love how Martin’s points blatantly contradict each other. Sex not based on mutual attraction sucks, yet men want that totally shitty sex so much they’d go to war over it and sex workers are so overworked their vaginas are falling off or some shit.
Actually, I was thinking of the witchfinders too. But then I thought about monty pythons inquisition. That brought a smile to my face.
And how do you get a virginal girl being a whore if someone brings her flowers? Can I convict you of being a thief because I brought you some cat litter Martin?
omg omg omg XDXDXXDXDXDXDDXDXDXDXD
Martin, you realize that your unique definition of whore makes every girl, from the moment of birth if not earlier a whore? (Presuming that she has an involved male somewhere in her presence, even a doctor?)
Also, facist societies do seem to prefer that women stay at home, but I believe you have found the wrong variable to blame for causality.
Why should he want cat litter? All men have dogs, who poo outside. Only women need cat litter because cats can’t be taught to poo outside (please ignore my cat who is busy about her kitty business in the bushes at the moment). I thought we covered this in the other thread. ::looks disapprovingly over his glasses::
We have a live one here, folks. I predict that if Tom sticks around he may eventually end up with his own Book.
“– 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.”
Translation: I can’t pay a prostitute enough to put up with me for more than a short period of time.
@Shadow — you said you were gaming. Did you pick up Mass Effect 3? How do you like it? Why am I asking you about it now, when I’m about to nod off at my keyboard?
Good night all! I shall go and sleep on my wooden mattress and curse the God who gave me dorsal weight-bearing pads one-fourth the size of my wife’s.
@Cassandra
Since homeboy can’t get past hard chairs and prostitution, I have a feeling we’ll only end up with a short story, maybe a graphic novel at best
YES YES PLEASE JESUS YES
AHAHAHAHA no, no, no, no. “Blue balls” and the vulva/clitoris/vagina equivalent is just due to vasocongestion i.e. pressure due to increased blood flow in the area from arousal. It’s uncomfortable but it goes away on its own eventually if you don’t have an orgasm (unless there is some other medical issue going on). You don’t need an operation to get rid of it and it’s not something obviously visible (beyond regular signs of arousal).
You sound like you learned your anatomy from the middle school playground, seriously.
Oh wow Tom thank you for answering my questions! The blueballs thing. You don’t even know how this incredible knowledge has affected me!
And now I’m going to stick my flounce for reals, yo.
Seriously tears of laughter!
Oh noes Falconer! I guess my poor hamster is all tired out and I got confused when I noticed my male friend has cats in the house. I guess he must be watching them for me and hanging their backends out his third story window when they need to do their business!
Silly me..tee hee!