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.
How do we know you’re the real magdelyn?
Come on people. Admit, you didn’t know half this stuff. Whenever one of you says “citation please” its clear you’ve never heard it before. It is an indication to me of of how indoctrinated you all are. I have learnt little from these comments. Where are your citations to disprove my hypothesis?
My hypothesis that both men and women get a shitty deal in a whoriarchy.
Point me to one bit of feminist literature or advocacy on Islamic gender relations which highlighs an inequality which men suffer from. No, its all about women, and in this context, you should find it a refreshing change to hear the other side of the story, but no, you want it still to be all about women as victims, given you’re whores.
Uhm… you DO understand that feminism is about erasing inequalities for women right, great feminist that you are of course. Do you also get all het up about the Civil Rights movement not dealing with issues that plague the White community?
Yes yes whoremaster, now go bring me some money.
*pats silly little troll on head*
@magdelyn
i have been following some of his other postings and he is remarkable consistent across all other forums. he also rather dully cuts and pastes, especially his rather bizarre take/rant on SA society. Maybe he’s one big troll but i think it really is him.
“No, its all about women, and in this context, you should find it a refreshing change to hear the other side of the story, but no, you want it still to be all about women as victims”
Search the feminist blogosphere with a few key words in the search bars, and I guarantee you will find something on homosexual rights. Oh, but wait: only straight men count when it comes to men’s issues, right?
And where are your citations whoremaster? I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.
Come on people. Admit, you didn’t know half this stuff. Whenever one of you says “citation please” its clear you’ve never heard it before. It is an indication to me of of how indoctrinated you all are. I have learnt little from these comments. Where are your citations to disprove my hypothesis?
Where are your citations to prove your hypothesis, asshole? You make a claim, you back it up. That’s how it fucking works.
Seriously, this kind of weaseling out would be amateurish for a ten-year-old.
Wow, Martin here must get along so well with all those MRAs who insist that the only decent wives to get are Islamic.
Martin, you aren’t Muslim, you aren’t Arabic, and you’ve made zero attempts to share your hypothesis with the oppressed men about whom you are so concerned. On what basis do you claim to have “…the other side of the story,” as it is relevant to Islam and the practice of sexual segregation within pats of the Arab world?
I’m going to ignore, for the time being, your misuse of the word; you say you’ve got a hypothesis. Go and test it out.
What’s stopping you?
I must be reading this wrong. To me, it looks like he’s saying “Come on, people, admit that you’ve never heard these random theories that I’m spouting that I’ve almost definitely made up. Whenever one of you says “citation please” it’s clear that you haven’t heard my random theories before and therefore doubt their veracity, and are asking me to back up my claims. This clearly demonstrates your ignorance, somehow.”
@Alex, I’m pretty sure only cis white able middle class men are real men. The rest of them can get help when they stop being so peskily not cis and white and able and middle class.
Well whoremaster, since you’re flagging about the MGTOW philosophies, why don’t you run along and play while the adults here have a real discussion?
Did you see what he wrote a few pages back about Rosa Parks? It’s safe to say that Martin knows very little about the Civil Rights movement.
Tom, here’s how it works. You’re making assertions on another person’s blog. Before you get to demand citations from the audience here, you need to provide citations to support your assertions. Until you do that, you get mockery here, and that is all you can reasonably expect. G’Night.
I missed “straight” when I was listing real men qualifications, which is sort of funny since you were talking about gay rights in the post I was responding to, Alex >.<
I’m sorry, but after reading whoremaster here, I’m afraid I have to give LSE an epic fail F for accepting this turkey into any of their programs. I’m pretty sure the janitorial staff there have a better grounding in academic requirements.
Being asked to back up your ludicrous claims: MISANDRY!
“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 can’t read Dilbert now without reading between the lines; I’ve noticed a surprising number of them recently have been about poor long-suffering, logical Dilbert being harangued by some shrieking harpy despite how obviously right he is. Today’s was about Dilbert going to a party and arguing with a woman about how logically she should be attracted to him, and it works!
It’s become like that webcomic that got trolled, so the whole rest of the comic became about the creator getting superpowers and slaughtering everyone who made fun of him. (Sonichu, I think?)
Hey, I bought a new tank for my siamese fighting fish today. Misandry.
Then I went to Cultures and ordered cheesecake, from a man.
Yesterday Beloved took my daughter and I out for dinner. And we didn’t have sex that night. Even though that morning, he cooked breakfast AND washed the dishes afterwards. And he fixed my antique table too. So much work, so little sex.
Tim: You might want to actually meet a few Muslim couples before you start pulling claims out of your ass. Because in my experience, such couples are very, VERY different from what you’re claiming.
By the way, I’m sure this has been gone over many many many times before, but how do you make the little quote box thing?
Oh, gods, that should be TOM, not Tim. Sorry, didn’t proof before posting. Will (hopefully) do better next time.
as i was merrily googling away and try to avoid looking at the 100s of studies which talk about women’s restricted access to employment, their ban on driving, their ban on going outside without a pre-approved male escort and all the other small petty things that women choose to inflict upon themselves as part of the secret femiwhorelizard global government, i came across this little list of how to be a good Islamic husband…and the horrors! they are instructed not to rush into the house for fear it might frighten the femiwhorelizards at their femiwhorebusiness (like tidying, childcare and making the dinner). And also the husbands need good oral hygiene
http://safia71.tripod.com/men_in_islam.htm
I like how whoremaster here assumes that no woman or feminist here has ever heard the idea that women are lazy, manipulative whores before. I mean, how did we miss that in all our feminist critiques….oh wait.
Dude, I’ve been hearing the drivel you’re spouting since before I understood what whore meant.
@Steph [blockquote] [/blockquote] but replace the square brackets with the angle brackets.