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.
Well, naturally, you’re the only person in the world who’s ever done sex work. So if you’re not personally offended by the vilification and dehumanization of sex workers, I guess it’s all good. After all, he’s an MRA and a man so he must be honorable and brave and shit.
Wow.
Tom, you are a total whore in almost every sense of that word (you have not mentioned taking money for having sex with someone, which would be honest). I am not sure why you want to deny your lifestyle to others.
I would pay money for video of you calling the Koran the Whoran while standing on a street corner in the middle of a big city in Saudi Arabia.
Well it might be easier to find a job if they could DRIVE TO WORK.
Well, Nobinayamu, that is some active imagine you have going on. Hope that works for you.
Before you start trying to categorize housework as proper work on any level, remember anyway, that in Islamic law, Muslim men are legally obliged to provide their wives with a cleaner/maid, if she requests it.
It’s probably worth Googling Yvonne Ridley, a UK journalist captured by the Iraqis, treated like a princess, then released, decided to read the Whoran, and described it as a “bill of rights for women”.
I think quite a few of you have been taking feminist propaganda on face value regarding male/female relations in Islam.
Google Mahr while you’re about it.
Muslim women are quids in the whores.
Their civilizations are down the pan, but as long as they’ve got one over on the men, they don’t seem to give a shit.
Tragic! And yet, they are forced into these terrible marriages, because of their total inability to survive independently in their cultureOHWAIT
It’s all been good so far, magdelyn.
Ah. So that’s what has you pissed! Thought so! Yes the Quoran does list the rights of women, including inheritance rights and that she may divorce her husband should he hit her (at least the translation that I read) and that idea was shockingly progressive like, two thousand years ago!
Citation for the law saying that every woman gets a maid in Saudi Arabia? Or is it just that she might have a daughter to help with the chores?
I should have said country, not culture. *Read comment then post, read comment then post…*
Yes men are totally forced to marry because basic housecleaning skills are utterly beyond their comprehension!!! What misandry to not teach their men how to houseclean!!!
The oppression of those poor male princesses!
“Citations are for whores!” — Hisname, Whats. “Some Article”, Some Journal, pp ??, 2000-ish.
If it’s so bad, why don’t the men change the rules?? They have this power, you know.
someone should seriously screencap all this shit and send it to the LSE or the Daily Fail lol
Hey Tom would you rather be a man or woman in Saudi Arabia?
and what about the Mutaween? My husband’s parents worked in SA for years, and his mum saw them in action, stopping women in street for infractions of Sharia Law. i’m not saying men weren’t pulled over as well but the restrictions on women under Sharia Law are far more onerous. Even my mum-in-law who avoids politics and feminism said it was awful the way they treated women.
From Wikipedia:
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html win!!! I rock!!!! my wee heart was pounding so hard that i was going to muck that up.
We’ll also totally overlook the fact that women can only be in contact with males of direct lineage: her father, brothers or her husband once the contract is signed. Kinda hard to find work that way, if your family isn’t wealthy enough to run a small business. Few businesses are setup to maintain purdah and even fewer are egalitarian enough to work openly with women or even hire them.
I like how everyone must have learnt about Islam from feminism. We can’t possibly have Islamic friends and family, or lived in Islamic countries, or even (God forbid) read the Quran or done some other research, no siree bob
i studied Arab Culture for a year as an Undergrad, did essays and exams and everything
sorry ARABIC culture, not ARAB.
Yes, if Muslim women want Muslim men to change the laws, then they can simply order their husbands or suitors to do this.
Similarly, they could order their husbands to vote for full female voting rights.
9 out of 10 “happy” marriages are based on the female decision-maker model (Strauss, 1986 et al).
Muslim’s will come out with some claptrap about the sexes serving “God”, or “God’s will” – but on the basis gods aren’t real, we have to look at which sex is serving the other.
Muslim men are a lot less in love with macho than we give them credit for. They do not want to live the traditional male gender role, because they have been living it, and know how shit it is. Muslim women on the other hand are grubby little whores by and large, and they know it.
I would be standing on a street corner in some Muslim land explaining it, but that would be too risky for my personal safety, or any man’s personal safety. It is easier for women to rise up without getting shot than for men, on gender politics issues.
Nevertheless, I will be translating my experiments’ findings and book into Arabic.
All those people who say I’m “whoring” by asking for donations to my legal fighting fund, are missing the point (Never!)
I believe in gender equality, so I am not selling out by asking people to help me fund the legal fight towards that ends.
Also, some people are claiming that I’m profiteering.
Remember, I just got lumbered with the university’s legal costs of £37,000 (duly filed) so don’t smoke any more crack today if you think I’m in this for the money.
Fighting for equality is not equality.
Or how about this story whoremaster, where a seventy year old woman was ordered to receive 40 lashes and four months in prison for mingling with a man who gave her five loaves of bread. In the Quoran, he is a son to her, as she breastfed him during his infancy.
40 lashes, even spaced out over four months is a death sentence to a woman this old.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/09/saudi.arabia.lashes/
Sorry, clearly the sarcasm was too strong for you Tom.
Why. Don’t. Saudi. Men. Stay. Unmarried.
Then the uppity hoores couldn’t steal all their money that they earned by the sweat of their brows!
” It would be too risky to your personal safety”. What’s the color code for calling someone a coward again? Was it plaid?
Viscaria! Surely you don’t believe men should cook their own meals do you? I mean, that’s what wimminz is for!
They’d starve to death or or or be forced to clean their own homes or or or be forced to pay wages to some whore who told her husband to collect money in exchange for work!!!
And, where’s that law about muslim women all getting maids?
I feel like, in the World According to Tom, the society he just described is how women live EVERYWHERE. Even the American whores are being driven around in taxis and being given money!
Srsly, dude, if everyone stopped giving each other presents tomorrow, it wouldn’t exactly be a huge blow to my income. Because I have, like, a job? And do freelance work? Like everyone else with a vagina I know?