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.
No Quackers, he totally has a study to back up his argument. It was published by Harvard in 2007. Oddly enough, can’t find it at the moment but it’s out there somewhere, so you’re wrong.
“4) you smoke some pretty cheap shit.”
Is *that* what’s wrong with him? I tend to forget the effect of that stuff, how it makes you think you’re being all profound and deep, and meanwhile you’re just being loopy.
Seriously, blow clear the clouds of smoke, and concentrate. The core of the argument is?
The paperback edition makes good toilet paper.
Og wait. I did forget something!
5) Martin is full of shit.
Martin the whoremaster doesn’t seem so feisty over here. I wonder why?
@Boomboom:
Don’t get me wrong; I didn’t mean to suggest that any of Camille Paglia’s ideas are good. I fully support the legalization of sex work, but Paglia glorifies prostitution for all the wrong reasons. As I said before, the only redeeming feature of Sexual Personae is its usefulness as a doorstop, and Vamps and Tramps isn’t quite bulky enough to even do that much.
@Tom Martin:
Several of you are arguing that putting the price down to zero would be rape, by falsely claiming or assuming that I’m arguing or suggesting you would be obliged to continue servicing Johns for free, when I have clearly stated that you get to choose your sex partners.
Oh, wow! Thank you so much for granting me the privilege of choosing my own sex partners, Mr. Martin! I didn’t realize I was allowed to do that until you explained it to me.
Okay, don’t give up making excuses for whoring. I tried.
What is this inactive housewife thing anyways? Did I not just here on CBC that women constitute just over half the current workforce in Canada?
The rest are at home to tend to children or elderly or ill relatives, are too sick to be working, are looking for work, are too young to work, are too old to work or in rare cases euither have the privilege of not working or are prevented from doing so due to religious or cultural practices.
And since I’ve never received flowers from men I suppose I can heavy a great sigh of relief knowing that I haven’t sold myself so cheaply into whoredom.
Just remember that flowers equals prostitute the next time a woman turns down your offer to buy her a drink when you’re trying to break the ice with her.
Oh whoremaster, what would be your reason to exist if we weren’t “whoring”?
Seriously, what are you for?
So what actually is your argument because as far as I can see it seems to consist of “women are whores and they need to stop it right now”. However you provide no sources, so your “argument” is really nothing other than your unsubstantiated opinion and your definition of “whore” seems to be any woman in a sexual relationship who’s been given a gift by her partner ever and that’s just silly.
Tom said:
“Okay, don’t give up making excuses for whoring. I tried.”
WTF are you smoking, because my chemo is giving me hell just now and I could really do with something to take my mind off it.
So for those that read Paglia, what exactly are women good for according to her anyway? I mean, those of us who weren’t able to overcome our horrible lusty natures like her!
What is our purpose according to her? do women not work? have women not come a long way? unless you’re an ignorant piece of shit you will know there are plenty of female scientists, inventors and doctors out there. Women make up a huge amount of people working in agriculture. Politics and government may not be completely equal between men and women, but there are still women there. In other countries with even less gender equality, there are female presidents. Do they not count in Paglia’s world?
You know how I know we aren’t living in a matriarchy? because even in 2012 men and women alike still make money off of the argument that women are inferior and contribute nothing to society. No one ever questions men, but women? oh no…despite our setbacks AND contributions, our abilities and usefulness other than brood mare are still called into question.
@aunthortense Oh, no, my comment on Paglia was independent of anything you said, I didn’t even see what you said. Sorry. I just saw her name and a switch flipped. lol.
No sale. Good bye.
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You know how I know we aren’t living in a matriarchy? because even in 2012 men and women alike still make money off of the argument that women are inferior and contribute nothing to society. No one ever questions men, but women? oh no…despite our setbacks AND contributions, our abilities and usefulness other than brood mare are still called into question.
THANK YOU!
[Stands in front of mirror.] Tom Martin. Tom Martin. TOM MARTIN.
Guys, I have a totally embarassing question thats been bugging me for years, and I think this is finally the right time/place to ask.
Does anyone else find that when they sit on those awful wooden library chairs for hours at a time, that their labia fall asleep?!
I find that it makes the long walk up to the circulation desk… awkward. Especially when its only happened on one side. 🙁
Shorter whoremaster: all females are whores. Just sayin!
We’re all whores, remember.
What I Learned from Tom Martin:
1. Prostitution is evil and all women (and only women) have a responsibility to stop it.
2. Tom Martin decides whether you are a prostitute or not.
3. So get to it, you whore feminists!
You’re right, Tom. Nobody is buying the nonsense you’re spouting, and nobody is going to buy your book either.
Run along now.
Tom said:
“No sale. Good bye.”
Well thank heaven for that!
Oh crap. I just realized that as a lady who often has sex with her husband, but utilizing the chairs at the public library, I am undoubtidly a whore.
Furthermore, since they make my lady bits fall asleep and go all pins and needles, I am experienceing a type of “gina tingle” whilst vampirically enjoying the government provided library seating.
Double whore. 🙁
I doubt any of the ladies on this thread are whores. You know your a whore when you get an email like this (which I did just yesterday):
“So final time I’m gonna ask. Will pay you to milk my cock with your sphincter. Will wear protection. Will pay you more for good blowjob and swallow.”