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.
Women in general are not whores, those of us who are part of the reality based community understand this.
You do not. Emoticons make more sense than you.
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Once upon a time, no one gave a fuck about what you have to say or what your asinine theory that lost in court is.
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Combine in a large bowl:
1/2 cup matzah meal (add slightly more for firmer balls) (snrk)
2 eggs
2 tablespoons oil (or chicken fat for more flavor)
2 tablespoons water (or chicken broth for more flavor)
Little bit of salt
Mix thoroughly, then cover and put in the fridge for 15 minutes.
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Eat and enjoy, but be aware: if you are a man and make this for a woman, you may have just made her into a whore. Use caution.
Tom, you were probably thinking, “What would it look like if the city of New York hired David Lynch to do a PSA about NYC’s rat problem?” Well, here you go.
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@Tom
Except women don’t run patriarchy or control things from the inside or some other conspiracy shit. You’ve provided absolutely zero evidence to back up your claims so we’re changing the subject. You also pulled a bullshit number out of your ass…97% or women are whores. No. They are not. No proof at all for this. Numerous people here have linked you to studies, asked you questions and you ignored them.
Money = power. The majority of women make money the same way men do, by going to work. By by all means go to Saudi Arabia and tell the men to let their “whores” go to work. I’m sure they’ll take that real well.
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@Tom Martin:
Alrighty, I’m a bit late in on the conversation… but yeesh.
First of all, you need to provide links to the actual articles. Contrary to popular belief, it is actually rather difficult to find a study with only a name and a year as a citation. This is important, because people tend to do very bad jobs of interpreting results of various studies. As an example, it’s more plausible that when you say this:
the study actually found that, in happy marriages, men listened to their partner when making decisions. Calling it women telling men what to do is just spin. Also, and I realize you are just laying out your own hypothesis on the matter, but “(citation needed)” is not a citation. If you want to provide evidence for your view, then provide what actually has evidence. “(citation neeeded)” just means “for all I know this is bunk.”
Apparently you were asked what made women whores. You not only didn’t answer this, but you said something so startlingly dense that I’m nobody should be taking you seriously.
So your real answer, behind all of your (not-present) data is that God made women whores. Just think about that for a second. The rest of your assertions are simply not worth rebutting because of no evidence presented. So what do we have? Some names and years representing studies that I couldn’t find, claims that are supported by studies that, thus far, only exist in your head, and some ramblings about how God made women whores and how women really do control men if you think about it, aye? No. Just… no.
OMG, it’s a sloth photobomb WHORE!
I find myself rather doubtful that Mr Martin will provide Ozy with intelligence of how his ideas could possibly be falsified in the scientific sense – which would firmly categorise them as being unreasonable, and consign them to the dustbin of intellectual rubbish. Like Jane Austen’s Mr Bennet, if I were to be asked, “can Tom Martin possibly be a reasonable person?” – meaning, is he capable of being reached by means of rational arguments, and defending his theories rationally – then my answer, enjoying as I do the spectacle of ludicrous people making themselves appear increasingly sillier, would be exactly the same: “No, my dear; I think not. I have great hopes of finding him quite the reverse.”
@Tom Martin:
Disprove that unicorns exist.
In other news, that’s not how burden of proof works. You are making the claim, you need to provide the evidence. You haven’t. But by all means, back up your claims and link to the actual studies.
@cloudiah – Ouch!
Tommy can you hear me? Skeptical giraffe is skeptical.
(OK, this is fueled by red wine and exhaustion. Cloudiah needs her internet taken away.)
According to Tom:
The male dominance/female power model fits this set up.
God/men/Imams/religious policemen are symbolically in power, but, they are merely carrying out the will of the real gods, on average, women.
But according to the actual BIBLE:
“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” (I Corinthians 14:34-35)
Yeah that sound like real female power there Tom.
http://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible7.htm#female-inferiority
What even is the thesis here? All I’ve got is:
1) Women secretly run everything. You can tell this because women don’t overtly run anything.
2) WHORES.
The first is unfalsifiable, because how do I prove I’m not secretly running the world? Maybe I am and it’s just a secret! The second is just a word he loves so much he uses it to mean:
-Woman who has sex for money
-Women who gets anything from anyone ever
-(NEW) Woman who tells a man what she wants
Ha, is Tom throwing a fit because people aren’t talking about the things he wants them to do? Ooh ooh, then I get to throw a fit about the fact that Tom still hasn’t told me how I’m supposed to respond if I’m approached by a man who wants sex. Just for fun, Tom, you could even tell us how I should respond if a woman approaches me for sex!
Also, Ozy’s question is seriously not hard to understand. What evidence would force you, Tom Martin, to reject your current beliefs about gender?
Extra “do” in first sentence of my last comment, I do not want you there.
Joeys are WHORES!
Warning: this may be the cutest photograph you have ever seen.
Oh no, cloudiah, I d’awwwwed so hard at that picture that my eyes went O.O and now they are stuck like that. I did not take your warning seriously enough!
And, upon reading back… Now I’ve learned that 97% of all women are whores. And Muslim women are in fact the biggest whores at all.
Tom, are you really trying to argue that, in areas where patriarchy is strongest, that is really inductive of whore-ness? In your opinion, can men hold power without a woman telling him what to do? This really can’t be unpacked any further; the fact that men hold power in the world apparently proves to you that women are actually controlling those men, and therefore women have the power.
Women are in power. In societies where they can’t drive themselves, are not allowed to be literate, cannot vote, and have no rights that aren’t granted to them by their husbands. Again, no. Just… no.
Yes Kirby Warp said:
Research shows (Strauss, 1986 et al, with a 2007 Harvard study confirming it which I can’t find) that 9 times out of 10, in happy marriages, women tell men what to do (on decisions big and small).
the study actually found that, in happy marriages, men listened to their partner when making decisions. Calling it women telling men what to do is just spin. Also, and I realize you are just laying out your own hypothesis on the matter, but “(citation needed)” is not a citation. If you want to provide evidence for your view, then provide what actually has evidence. “(citation neeeded)” just means “for all I know this is bunk.”
Yes, true on Strauss, but it was the 2007 study which went into much more detail, on happy marriages, confirming, women make 9 out of 10 decisions big and small – and confirming that this is something researchers consistently find, and is uncontested within the field -but I have been unable to trace that study, so shoot yourself. I’m not lying, and you’re free to disprove it, but to my understanding, it is true.
At the time, the 2007 Harvard study said it was uncontested knowledge – if I’d known a bunch of manboobzers would be denying everything 5 years later (and I mean everything), I would have taken a note of the study’s name, but even if you want to deny it, the experimental psychology in Aries, E. 1996 regarding women telling men to announce stuff confirms it anyway, so stop being pedantic you twats.
Now, regarding the 97% whore rate, you might be thinking, “but Tom, 15% of women are serious about their professions, and 25 to 40% of women earn more than their husbands, so how can 97% of women be whores?” Because so few women actually embrace the opportunity to liberate men, but rather do it complainingly, begrudgingly, and gracelessly – bitching that he’s a lazy bum etc, rather than celebrating his opportunity to spend more time with the kids etc. It’s where the joyful and positivistic renunciation of prostitution comes in if you want to claim you’re really not a prostitute.
So men who complain and bitch about taking care of their kids and supporting their kids financially are also whores!
MRAs are all whores by that definition.
Tom, care to explain how religion empowers women when a fuckload of bible quotes basically tell them they must shut up and submit to their husbands?
@Tom:
So… O_o You were in fact misrepresenting the Strauss study… but the study that you and nobody else can find actually does say what you say it says… How exactly do you expect anyone to believe you?
1. “I’m not lying:” Saying it doesn’t make it so.
2. “You’re free to disprove it:” That’s not how burden of proof works. You are responsible for providing evidence if you hope to convince anyone.
3. “but to my understanding, it is true:” Either your understanding was in fact false re: the strauss study, or you were deliberately misrepresenting it. Neither bodes well for trusting you. Also see 1.
And as soon as you provide a link to the actual study, we can independently verify that you aren’t misrepresenting another study.
Wrong. I’m thinking “but Tom, what possible definition of the word ‘whore’ are you using to get that percentage rate?” Even though it’s a made-up percentage, going by my understanding of the word “whore” it is pretty much impossible for the rate to be that high.
@Holly, if you secretly run the world, could you please finish my thesis for me? It’s like 2/3 written, so I don’t think this is an unreasonable request even though you have no idea of my field or research questions. Also your firm matzah balls are exciting. Thx.
@Viscaria, I should have made that warning both bold and flashing. Sorry about the eyes. Please don’t sue me — I will give you a sofa and some padded chairs.
Everyone else (except TomM), you are WHORES. And I am sloppy drunk and I LURV you . You make me laugh AND teach me useful stuff. Signing off for the night…
~cloudiah
So complaining makes you a prostitute now?