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.
If Muslim men want these laws changed, they can simply change them.
How would it be a risk to your personal safety, exactly? You imagine that the whorish women are threat to your physical safety? What would be the danger?
Why wait? You could hire a translator right now and start publishing your copy-&-pastes on your website in Arabic. You could work with a translator to join discussions on Arabic news sites, posting your ideas in the comments. In fact, you’re certain that the men already agree with you so, you shouldn’t have any problem approaching some gentleman within the Arabic and Muslim communities in the UK and enlisting their help.
I’m sure they’ll leap at the opportunity as soon as you say “Whoran”.
…okay, Tom here HAS to be a Poe, right? I cannot deal with the idea of sharing a planet with someone stupid enough to say this sort of thing non-satirically.
I will pay good money to Martins mother to be there for that Whoran conversation.
He’s such an expensive Poe, though! He went to a grad program JUST to troll?
Hey, nobody told you to live-troll a master’s program so you could try and sue them for discrimination. That’s all you homie. Take some responsibility.
All kidding aside, you are such an obvious charlatan.
LMAO!!! Homeboy sues for 50000 quid cos his ass was sore, loses and gets saddled with LSE’s legal expenses, and now we’re supposed to think this was in his plans or something?
In fact Martin, I’ll make it easy for you. Come to Canada and meet my Afghani friendsand their community. You can tell them all about the Whoran, and spread the word. The laws here will protect you quite well if you don’t trust your own.
Also, citations go (Strauss et al, 1986). I’m assuming he’s referring to this study:
http://web.business.queensu.ca/faculty/jbarling/Papers/Multiple%20Stressors,%20Violence%20in%20the%20Family%20of%20Origin.pdf
Having just finished my paper, I’m burnt out on reading studies. If anyone wants to read it feel free
i was wondering this too, Polliwog. But then i thought, this is a reaaaaaallly long and drawn out Poe, it’s being going on for at least a year and in so many forums. I reckon he is actually serious. i’m simultaneously horrified and also glad he is here on Manboobz
@pillowinhell
If he doesn’t take you up on it, I’ll hook him up with my Muslim cousin, or any of my Muslim friends the next time I go to London.
@Tom:
I have to run off to the library and do research of my own, so I’m just going to leave these links here.
Roula Baki, “Gender-Segregated Education in Saudi Arabia: Its Impact on Social Norms and the Saudi Labor Market,” Education Policy Analysis Archives vol. 12, no. 28 (2004)
Amani Hamdam, “Women and Education in Saudi Arabia: Challenges and Achievements,” International Education Journal vol. 6, no. 1 (2005)
I found these papers after about five minutes of searching on the magic Google machine. I admit that I read them pretty quickly, and I didn’t check any of the citations, but like I said, I have my own research to do. Still, I just thought you should know that all signs point to you being as massively full of shit about the causes of female underemployment in Saudi Arabia as you are about everything else. As Baki explains:
I’d be thrilled to hear how this fits in with your theory that Saudi women are all lazy, lazy whores who willfully refuse to get jobs, because they know that they can survive by leeching off male largesse. (And yes, it’s “leech,” not “leach” which means something entirely different.)
P.S. — Some of the chairs in my university’s library are soft and comfy, while others are hard and not-so-comfy. Up until now, I’ve always preferred to sit in the soft and comfy chairs, but thanks to your courageous campaigning for equality, I have realized that I have been unfairly stealing them from men who, by dint of the reduced area of the load-bearing pads on their buttocks, needed them far more than I did. I hereby vow that I will strive to be more mindful of my female privilege, and never again misappropriate a soft chair in the library.
P.P.S. — Hah, gotcha! I was actually lying; if there’s a soft chair free, I’m going to grab it like I’m competing for the Olympic gold metal in musical chairs. And then, once I’m sitting in that soft chair, you know what I’m going to do? I’m going snuggle in and get all cozy, without a single pang of remorse. I might even take off my shoes and cross my legs underneath me on the seat, further pampering the load-bearing pads of my unfairly advantaged lady buttocks. BECAUSE I AM AN EVIL FEMINIST WHORE AND I LIVE TO MAKE MEN SUFFER, MWAHAHAHA.
Martin does not have to travel to introduce the men of a Muslim community to his revolutionary ideas. He’s in the U.K. right now.
He thinks that Arabic men are being horribly victimized by lazy whorish women and, in his words, “very receptive to change.” But, strangely, he’s begun no outreach to help the oppressed men despite his beliefs.
“Then the uppity hoores couldn’t steal all their money that they earned by the sweat of their brows!”
I believe the proper term is heaux.
This message has been brought to you by French class and not enough sleep this weekend.
Yeah, all the excuses in the world, for why Saudi women can’t get ahead, leading to only 22% female economic activity rate, but in UK, where those barriers don’t exist, only 26% economic activity rate – so tell the truth.
Sex segregation is caused by women’s choice to sex segregate. I’ve never seen an advert advertising a room for a boy only, in a boys only house, for instance. In Saudi, the sex segregation is enforced by cultural/religious decree – but the men policing it are merely pawns.
If men stopped financing women, women would be forced to rise up, demand an end to sex segregation, and sex segregation would disappear – and along with its demise, the death of extreme religion too.
Yes but you see, I’m a very busy whore, what with lying around all day counting money. I can’t be bothered to get off my ass to watch that discussion any more than whoremaster Martin can be bothered to get off his ass to liberate men.
After all, if I’m paying good money, I should be able to demand good service.
Hey, Martin, don’t waste your ideas on us. A lot of us think you’re a total fucking idiot an a money-grubbing whore, to boot.
Go to the Arabic community in the U.K. and spread your truth to the oppressed men. What are you waiting for?
Wow. So the men doing the beating are mere pawns of the women getting beaten, huh Tom? You’re a real sick fuck, you know that?
First the Dilbert guy (and probably others I’m not aware of), and now Tom Martin? Are these guys really that oblivious to what fools they make of themselves?
“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.”
In that land where women get stoned to death because a man raped her. Your ideas are all that is foul with this kind of thinking. Women are actually oppressed by Muslim society and you’re trying to argue it’s the other way around? Where is your PROOF? You spout this nonsense but have yet to provide on SHRED of evidence that the Muslim world operates in the manner you are suggesting.
If you actually did stand on a street corner in some Muslim country they’d arrest you and throw you in jail for insulting their religion. If there is one thing you should take away from tossing around such nonsense it should be that you don’t speak for anyone who is a Muslim and your imagination will get you into a great deal of trouble if you -actually- were to say any of these things to Muslim men. They don’t care about women either, but to suggest that they are subservient to women? Not such a good idea. You insult their religion simply by not understanding how it works.
And yes, I’m well aware that Tom won’t read this or pay attention to any kind of rationality. But I am seriously sick of blatant nonsense being tossed around. My kid lies more convincingly than he does.
How do we know this is the real Tom Martin, and not some trollio, inciting everybody into getting their knickers in a twist?
i was so waiting for the line that the men enforcing Sharia law violently against women are actually the pawns of the women receiving the beating..
Tom. You didn’t let me down. You are such an epic FAIL
“If men stopped financing women, women would be forced to rise up, demand an end to sex segregation, and sex segregation would disappear – and along with its demise, the death of extreme religion too.”
Do you not understand how ANY religion works? Go read about Catholics and Muslims and Mormons and just about any other extreme religion. Even Quiverful families, who are probably as sugar sweet as can be, yet the husband/father has the final say on everything. NONE of those religions allow women to rule. At all. And your nonsense about women ruling from behind is ridiculous. None of those men listen to the women they associate. They pat them on the heads and tell them to go back to the kitchen. How can you possibly not know any of this?
*deep breath, exhale the evil lies, inhale facts and proper skepticism*
Dave, I don’t know how you handle doing this on a regular basis. I swear I’d be dead of an aneurysm by now if I did this as constantly as you do. I tip my hat to you, good sir.
It’s like the reverse argument of the old anti-suffragists. Men totally can’t vote for themselves, even if they are the only people allowed to vote, they just vote however women order them to vote. So, might as well just not let men vote at all and just have the women vote directly, yes?
(The above contains sarcasm)
Whoa hold up! Muslim men do care about the women in their families! The problem lies in the fact that some Muslim nations are in the hands of men who wish to pervert their religion and are willing to kill in order to maintain control.