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.
MSU: What “injustice” do you see Tom Martin dealing with??????????????
Hard chairs?????????????????????????????????/
5 bucks says MUS is an old friend of ours.
hahaha let me learn from his “YOU ARE ALL WHORES” and “SEAT CHAIRS ARE THE MOST OPPRESSIVE THING EVER”. Are you joking? I don’t want this man representing the future of men’s rights, I don’t want him representing ME. You know most men don’t think the women in their lives are all whores, even nonfeminist dude would not want him to teach them jack shit.
Yeah our culture is soo out to get men.
*stares at david*
That sounds like a fun first date! 🙂
Exactly how far up your ass did you have to reach to pull that number?
Sorry, what did I miss? I was busy being a whore.*
*Watching Youtube videos on your couch while identifying as female makes you a whore, right?
#Joins Jumbofish in staring at David#
Tom Martin: I have sources for all my claims. There’s a 2007 Harvard Study that I can’t seem to put my hands on at the moment, a well-known BBC documentary about butt padding, the INTERNET, and my estimation. Good enough for a peer-reviewed journal, what?
Just like it being polite to inform someone first if you have a social disease, you should inform someone first if you are a gold-digger/whore/housewife wannabe etc.
Wait, what is a social disease? Is that like from west side story?
Hellkell, MUS seems to be posting from the same mysterious town as AVT. Let’s just call it Trollville. I assume they’re both using the same anonymizer (one non-troll also used it a while back). And I’m also assuming they are both the same person, and that this person may have in a previous incarnation been known as MRAL.
So MUS is banned pending a really, really, really good explanation.
Is it ever going to sink in, Tom, that no one here gives a shit who you do or do not think is a “whore”? You are no more or less than a prolific troll who a took a couple levels in Publicity Hound.
1. I don’t claim to be any sort of genius, but I can string together a coherent argument and cite it properly, and I get to go to a second string Australian uni. And this clown managed to gain admittion to a postgrad course at LS-freakin’-E? I’m starting to feel kind of oppressed myself.
2. Fun fact: while ‘whoriarchy’ (obviously) isn’t really a thing, there was already a word for it: “pornocracy”. I suppose I should feel bad about adding one more little fail to the pile, but I’m feeling bitter about the LSE thing.
3. Hard chairs used to bother me, too, until I took up bicycling. There’s a passtime that makes your arse ready for anything life can throw at it!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pornocracy?s=t
@Lauralot Totally a whore. You are enjoying videos created by other people, you whore. And probably using devices patented by men, so double-whore! If you’re also eating the mammoth jerky that men hunted for you, you’ve hit the whore trifecta, and I curtsey to you.
Thanks, David. I thought I’d hear this bullshit before.
Perhaps MRAL should stay away from phrases that echo his “male disposability” hobbyhorse. And then get a life after that.
omg mral get a life!
Yes but cloudiah, which side of the double-whore has the teeth and which the waves?
Tom Tom Tom!
Ew, am I included in this? :-/
Also you said LOTS OF WORDS but I still have no idea what to do if a guy approaches me for sex!
Snowy, you are evoking the terrifying whore-sword of DOOM! [Cloudiah drops to her fainting couch with a severe case of the vapors.]
Oh Tom, did you know people (whores!) are talking about you on the internet here too? Better go say hi, or they’ll feel left out.
Even setting aside the double standards (women who stay at home with kids are fascist WHORES, men who stay at home are praiseworthy) and how much of a bullshit capitalist model of dating is going on there, it occurs to me that this description could actually include some sex workers. So, what about a woman who does these things and whose job involves…taking money for sex, or for being in porn? Is she a non-WHORE sex worker then?
For the record, I hereby categorically express my support for the right of sex workers to exist and to receive fair and equitable treatment in society, if for no other reason than FUCK YOU TOM.
Tom. BBC documentary regarding male/female buttock pads. Name it, pretty pretty please with cherries and sugar on top.
Wait, we have a sword now that’s got teeth on one edge and waves on the other?
Is this some kind of awesome Dungeons & Dragons thing?
Women! We slew Ol’ Rot Gut the Swack-Iron Dragon for you! We destroyed Vecna the Undying! Fetch us mead forthwith!
Xanthë: he can’t, he said so himself. All he could say was that the documentary was from 2006, approximately (!) and an “Open University programme”, whatever that means, and he that he didn’t find it on Google.