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.
Tom, you don’t get it, it’s not us who hate the idea of compulsory test, it’s almost everybody. Imagine, if we have this law it means that:
– I an tell that you’re my baby’s father, and you’ll have to give DNA. You don’t care about privacy.
– most men don’t worry about the DNA of their child. Maybe they should, maybe they’re being cheated, but most men don’t worry about the issue. Including the controlling one.
– What happens if I’m raped by a stranger, and I keep the baby. Do you send me to jail because of that?
– What if I just don’t remember the father, I had sex with twenty dudes at a party and I don’t know any name, but my husband want to raise the child even though he knows he didn’t fathered him?
Hope I haven’t already posted this. If you can get past the ad at the beginning, this is a lot of fun (and you’ll never hear this song the same way again):
I think in Tom’s world, all of your scenarios never happen. Or they only happen to whores, and in that case, they should be thrown in jail on principle.
@ Tom Martin “Even if the woman was working as a hooker at the docks, she’ll take every guy’s name and address. And that guy will wear a condom every freaking time.”
Most of what you said was really boring and stupid, but this bit is fascinating. Does this mean that you actually draw a line between bona fide sex workers and the other “whores” you keep talking about? What’s the difference here? How does one go from being a regular 97% “whore” to being a “hooker”?
@random6x7 I think the difference between the two numbers is that 2/3 of men who do paternity tests get a negative. That’s not representative of everybody, because men who do tests are men who are reason to think they might no be the father. So obviously they have a higher result.
Why do you hate men so much that you want their civil liberties to be encroached upon by mandatory genetic testing, Tom?
Ironically this proves that Tom knows on some level that he’s not an oppressed person in any way. If he really did belong to a historically oppressed group he’d find the idea of state-mandated genetic testing a lot more alarming, because he’d already see all the ways in which it could be misused. But since he’s been swimming in privilege since birth, it doesn’t even occur to him to worry about that.
Yeah, ‘cos guys doing something illegal (it shouldn’t be, but it is) will be so forthcoming with their real names and addresses. That’ll work. Did you patent this invention, Tom?
Sorry if I was unclear; that was the point I was trying to make, but my brain is kind of fried lately.
This comes from personal experience. I stood in a courtroom, in front of a judge and all the other members of court when my ex accused me of falsifying our childs paternity. In Canada, if the father so wishes, genetic testing will be done. He wished it and he is the father.
The judge explained that if he was the father, then he would pay the cost of the testing. If he was not, then I would pay the cost of the testing and the court case would be dropped. I’d also face penalties with making false claims.
Pretty balanced don’t you think?
Everybody, I have it on good authority that David can do this to all cats:
@random: I thought so, but since it had been mentioned before I thought a bit of clarification wouldn’t hurt. But I’m tired so it’s probably not much clearer.
@Xeginy: unless you want to put 98% of women in prison, scenario 1 is possible, and even easy. I don’t need to sleep with Tom, just to say that he’s the father. As long as women keep getting pregnant, that’s a very probable scenario if you have mandatory tests.
If women stop to get pregnant… well we’re speaking about a completely different scenario, in which human are likely to disappear. Very soon.
And I still don’t have a working definition for ‘whore’. Just sayin’.
Oh, man I wish I could do that to all cats, or at least mine.
I have learned in recent days how very, very much she does not like having medicine squirted into her mouth.
You know what happens when one in every 250,000,000 mothers gets given the wrong child in the maternity ward?
The authorities initiate a huge investigation. Staff get fired. The woman gets thousands in compensation. Politicians promise to do more.
But men?
They get manboobzer excuses.
I disown manboobzers from the equality movement.
So much shit for excuses “Oh, we don’t see how guys knowing who the real father is will make any difference to their behaviour. No!”
Imagine women knew when they gave birth there was a 10% chance of a baby mix up in the maternity ward. Would that make any difference to their behaviour?
Fucking crack head whores you must be if you don’t get this.
And yes, throw the book at guys who are called for a paternity test but refuse.
It is not only about men’s rights. It is about the child’s rights to knowing its genetic heritage.
The child’s right should trump any others’ rights – because its the kid’s health in question. It’s the kid who in the future may need blood, or parts, or genetic information for future treatments – and a right to know what illnesses are in the family tree, and a right to know who the fuck their father is you cunts.
The guys I’ve spoken to about it are like “Yeah, good idea.”
The women I’ve spoken to about it?
97% of them hate it (because they’re whores).
Tom, honey, you’re not part of “the equality movement”, therefore you can’t “disown” this site “from” it. Also, who wrote your LSE application for you? Because judging by your comments here you certainly wouldn’t have been admitted if you’d written it yourself.
…so now this is about the safety of children? I thought this was about preventing jealousy, paranoia, and controlling behavior in men. You still haven’t explained how the testing would improve men and women’s relationships, by the way.
@ David
Giving a cat meds is a 2 person job – one to hold the cat still and restrain its limbs, and one to pry the mouth open and squirt in the meds, and then hold the mouth closed for a while so that cat can’t spit them right back out.
Tom, I’m so proud of you! You learned! You used the 10% figure instead of the 30% one!
Whores but… not hookers? Help me out here.
Ah and here we go with cunt!
I’m sorry, who is arguing about the rights of children to know their fathers? A man who believes children should be placed in harms way because daddy only beat mommy? You are an MRa right? So dads should see their kids regardless of anything else?
What about a childs rights to know their mother, you know, those people you’re so eager to throw in jail. The icky people you think your “cunning plan” will ensare?
Tom doesn’t love me. I can’t even get a directed insult.
I’m not a pacifist, so I must not be a whore…
I can’t take Tom seriously until he promotes maternity tests. How do we know that women are pretending to be the mothers for all the money they get?
OK, I can’t lie, that cracked me up.
His world is wrapped up in such a neat, whorey bow
A huge investigation is launched because a mixup like that makes the hospital liable; people lose trust in the institution, and it is ultimately the fault of THE HOSPITAL, not either of the parents.
When a woman lies, or is mistaken, about the paternity of the child, the only one who is liable is the individual woman. Since the hospital isn’t involved and, frankly, probably doesn’t really care, then there is no reason to launch an investigation of that sort.
However, the way I understand it, if a woman claims paternity and is mistaken when a paternity test is done, she’s liable for the cost. (I believe that’s the way it works in the U.S., that is. I’m not sure about the U.K.)
Why do you hate men, Tom? Why do you want to force all men to give up their genetic privacy while excusing all women born up to whenever mandatory paternity testing begins? Have you not heard the controversy over Henrietta Lacks’s cells? Did you not watch Gattaca?