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.
“We manboobzers are losing the argument, but if we just become pedantic, no one will notice!”
“Tom is so stupid!”
“We so are’t whores!”
Tom, what are you frothing at the mouth about? Nothing prevents you from getting a paternity test done for any children you may have. There are already laws in place in Canada for situations where men have been cuckholded. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are in Britain too.
I think we should test the grandparents too. I mean, what if grandad isn’t really the grandfather? There might be some elderly man out there who doesn’t even know that he just became a grandfather, and we can find him if we just start a massive DNA database! Also, back in the old days it wasn’t uncommon for families to pass kids off as the children of the mom if the daughter was unmarried, so grandma might not actually be the grandmother either. Clearly we need to test every potential relative and then, if it turns out that grandma or grandpa aren’t really related to the baby…well, could get complicated, so we should probably just send the mother to jail for being a whore, since that’s the simplest solution and the only one that will soothe Tom’s butthurt.
I’m still not clear on what a whore is to you, so how can I know if I am one?
@David, When I had to give my kitty liquid antibiotics, I found that wrapping her in a tablecloth worked the best. A towel wasn’t big enough to really immobilize her. How’s your kitty? [Sends internet chin scratches, if that’s what she likes.]
Toms definition of a whore: if you have to ask, then you’re a whore.
Also, if you step out of your little Anglocentric worldview (which you seem to be able to do rather easily when it comes to whores ™ (h/t to Kyrie)), this is actually a common enough problem in some third world countries that mothers worry. My mom (who’s a doctor that was working in the hospital I was delivered at) had my dad follow the nurse until she put the nametag on me to ensure that that didn’t happen. Of course, things are much better now, but it’s still a bigger possibility out in the 3rd world than it is in the West. Yet no one’s running around declaring the need for DNA tests before a child is released from the hospital (possibly because they have bigger shit to worry about, as do most men and women in the West)
I’m tickled pink to see that Tom is also following the NWO guide to statistics, as taken directly from the Book of Larnin.
Toms definition of a whore: if you have to ask then you are one.
We’re losing?
You admitted it! Admitting that you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery.
I bet if you took a poll, at least half (if not more) of man boobz commenters would self-describe themselves as whores. See, I’ll start:
I am a whore, and I am proud!
See, I’m using your definition of whore, which is apparently…everybody except pacifists?
Tom: See. I told you women hate the idea of compulsory paternity tests.
No. Intelligent people aren’t fond of impossibilities provided as attempts at conversation stopping.
Tell you what, when you patent the simple paternity test that infallibly points to the father, without inconveniencing any man in the determination.. I’ll fund it.
And even if you don’t, because 97-98% of you are crackhead whores anyway. Except for the hookers down at the docks!
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I think poor Tom is starting to get flustered. Since endlessly screaming WHORE at us has failed to bully us into silence, he’s been forced to move on to “crackhead” and “cunt”.
I would suggest that he sit down and have a nice cup of tea, but we’d have to check and make sure that the chair was soft enough for his delicate bum first.
This is my secret fear too, you WHORES.
Tom, again, how is a hooker distinct from a whore?
What if there are no docks, but you’d still like to be a hooker? Would that make you not a whore?
If he’s doing this badly here, with people who are mostly here for the lolz, I would love to see what would happen to him on Pharyngula (if that’s how it’s spelled). Good times, good times.
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His disowns us from the equality movement?
hahahaahahah dudeee its not like a club
“These are two individuals whose specialty, other than apparently downing copious amounts of Ben and Jerry’s Patriarchy Chunk ice cream on a daily basis, is mining for minority voices on the fringe of the MRM, and conflating them with out of context quotes from actual MRA’s, twisted into the desired form. But they don’t even do that with enough gusto to burn a few calories.”
this was at your friend Mr. Elam’s site…
I think I found your next article…
….your welcome….
Someone should send PZ a tip. I too would love to see Tom try his brand of stupid on the Pharyngula crowd.
oh, and next time if you decide to quote me, please quote EVERYTHING I said and don’t putt part of what I said then your words then a flashing sarcasm button for plausible deniability…
it’s what good people do….
I know Tom said this PAGES back, but I have to point out the fact that, even if he was somehow right about women in Saudi Arabia having all the power, he’s missed one important thing: all the American backlash against the Middle East since 911.
Tom, people are getting detained at airports just because they’re Muslim. In DC, where I live, people have reported women to Metro police *just because they were wearing a headscarf*. Most people think Saudi Arabia means TERRORISM, not “Land Where Women Run Everything”.
Tom, HOW DID YOU MISS 911? It changed huge parts of people’s lives and the way the US was governed and demonized an entire religion and culture, but you think most American women want to just *move to the Middle East* in spite of all that?
Honestly, considering this dude took his act to a fuckin courtroom, I find myself constantly left wanting. All blog smackdowns seem to pale compared to the 37g one the judge gave him lolll
*Waits for Tom’s explanation of how 9/11 is proof of Muslim women being whores*
*gets popcorn*
(is it too early for a drink?)