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.
my guess would be, on the swollen rectum and vaginal tissue question, less a question of lack of orgasm, and a more case of repetitive penetration for several hours day. not being a sex worker and not knowing any sex workers, i quite clearly cannot speak for them, but from my own experience of sex, and long sex sessions, things can get tender down there even with lube and orgasms.
I wonder if Tom thinks that when someone has “blue balls” it means that they literally turn blue and the guy ends up with Avatar genitalia until an operation is performed to return said genitalia to its normal hue.
I’m pleased to know that I can now tell men who want to pressure me in to sex/ blame me for their sexual frustrations that they have a new alternative! Surgery!
Is it outpatient or inpatient sugery? Will it be covered by insurance?
Perhaps we should get Obama in on this…
Prostitutes more likely to exhibit symptoms of pelvic vasocongestion than normal women. Ouch!
“Prostitutes are boring”
Hmm…tell that to the concubines and coutesans who were very highly sought after for their non sexual skill sets and company.
Martin, I think prostitutes have bigger health concerns than vasocongestion. But your concern for their overall well being is touching…strange..but touching.
Oh wait, I guess if things get too painful she might call it a day and then you won’t be serviced. Poor Martin.
@Falconer
Yep, just rented it today, finally!! It’s as fun as always, though I’m finding the combat movement to be more clunky. I’m really pissed about how necessary multiplayer is (from what I’ve read) because it’s a series that I love to replay. I’ve done three playthroughs of 1-2 already, and I expect to do the same with the whole trilogy.
“Prostitutes more likely to exhibit symptoms of pelvic vasocongestion than normal women. Ouch!”
Therefore the price should be zero?
Dude, you’re slipping. Even our sadder trolls try harder.
I see I taught you a new word, Tom! You are actually capable of learning! Good job!
You know what really concerns me Martin? Will being able to suggest surgery as a cure for blueballs to these guys when I turn them down prevent them from calling me a bitch? Because I can totally get behind a call from men to support that sugery being made free.
So I looked it up – did you guys know that they don’t award Nobel Prizes for most things? Aside from prostitution, there are no Nobels for teaching, horseback riding, Roller Derby, retail work, cinema, parenting or Zamboni driving. And my shocking list just barely scratches the surface of the many, many horrible ways we’re all squandering our talents and wasting our lives.
EVERYTHING YOU’RE DOING IS WITHOUT VALUE AND PROBABLY OFFENSIVE. IF YOU DON’T HAVE A NOBEL NOMINATION STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
I know, it’s just Wikipedia, but I found this interesting:
Really Tom, where are you getting this load of utter piffle? I don’t see a single source. Or are you just reading MRA nonsense and not bothering to back it up with any adequate sources? Some primary sources, ethnography and analysis would be much appreciated.
Let me see if I have this right, I’m sure you’ll correct me if I misunderstand.
All women who exchange sex for anything at all: gifts, food, money etc. is a sex worker…oh, excuse me: whore. This includes teenage girls who would like a little gift of flowers, housewives, who live on their husbands income and who obviously do nothing but sit at home doing nothing, to self sufficient working women with their own income but sometimes accept gifts from husbands or lovers, to women in the sex industry. Is the same true of men?
You do realize, don’t you, that people exchange gifts on a reciprocal basis?
Also: housewives actually work pretty hard, especially if they have children. Running a household is work. The fact that you completely dismiss it as worthless doesn’t change that. It’s much, much easier to dedicate yourself to your work if you have a partner who takes care of everything else.
You also seem to think that women should be forced to have sex with any man who wants them, which to me sounds like institutionalized rape. We control our own bodies, thankyou very much, and we determine how we use them. Or are you saying that sex should be based solely on physical attraction? People have sex for many other reasons, as well as physical attraction.
Wait, so vasocongestion is not actually caused by being a sex worker? Say it ain’t so!
I do have a book, on the way, based on some experimental psychology I’m conducting. As soon as I put this gender studies industry out of its misery, I’ll let you know.
So Martin, where do your feminist beliefs come in?
I mean, it takes more than just believing that women and girls exist to make you a feminist.
Let me guess Tom, you’re going to be publishing it online?
Typical feminist entitlement
Tom said:
“I do have a book, on the way, based on some experimental psychology I’m conducting. As soon as I put this gender studies industry out of its misery, I’ll let you know.”
And what are your qualifications in experimental psychology?
Shadow: I know, eh! 😉
You also seem to think that women should be forced to have sex with any man who wants them, which to me sounds like institutionalized rape.
He could belong to the Brave New World school of gender relations. I’m sure Tom would be happy to redeem the pink ticket of any woman who stood in line at the Federal Sex Bureau and registered for use of his body at a designated time. OK, I mixed up Brave New World and Futurama there.
Well, I’m sure your little study will be well written, critically examined for biases and methodology flaws and rigourously backed up by plenty of research and data. Just like you’ve shown on all the blogs you’ve posted on recently!!!
@Tom
Before you say stupid things about sex workers search for these two names on YouTube and watch some of their videos:
Divinity33372
Feminist Whore
They are real sex workers who know what the job is actually like unlike you, pampered douchebag.
Then get back to us.
Or you can read Sex Worker Problems: http://sexworkerproblems.tumblr.com/
@Katz:
Ithiliana said it first, and better, but Camille Paglia is a self-identified “feminist” who argues that the awesome creative power of the masculine libido — which is, of course, inextricably intertwined with the masculine fear of women and their mysterious penis-devouring, baby-making lady bits — was the driving force behind all of Western Civilization (not that there’s really any other kind of civilization, of course). In other words, it’s the old “men:: culture :: women : nature” schtick, which is hardly breaking news — except Paglia seriously believes that this isn’t just a social construct, but a profound and inescapable truth of the human condition.
All of these quotes are from Paglia’s book Sexual Personae, an incoherent, interminable love letter to male supremacy, all but dripping with pseudo-Nietzschean pretensions. (Lest I be suspected of cherrypicking in my quote selection, let me assure you that equally brilliant gems of WTFery occur at least once per page — and with over seven hundred pages, that’s a whole lot of WTF. On the other hand, the hardback edition makes an awesome doorstop.)
So, yeah, that’s Camille Paglia: the kind of troll who claims to be a feminist, while simultaneously arguing for the natural inferiority of women. She and Tom should hang out sometime (except not, because Paglia is actually pro-prostitution — she’s outright stated it’s one of the noblest callings to which a woman can aspire).