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.
Actually, I’m expecting to just be ignored. This *is* the guy that thought the fact that we don’t want there to be a national DNA database means that we hate men. 😛
You remind me of the sovereign citizens who grace the hallowed halls around here by their utter lack of understanding of anything beyond “words can be put on papers.”
No, this is a statement of fact: Everything you said in this thread can be brought up by your opponents in your court case when they respond to your appeal. Including you saying that 98% of people are whores…which means the appellate judges. Who will not be pleased.
I really hope that happens and for the court case to be broadcasted. So the whole world can see first hand what a joke the MRM really is.
@ Molly
Should I tell him that I’ve actually lived in the Kingdom? I could in theory give him a lot more information about how things really work there, but given that he doesn’t seem to grasp the idea that facts and opinions are not the same thing I doubt that it would do any good. I really, really want him to try arguing his lulzy ideas with the mutaween, though.
The child should have a guarantee of who its parents are, and this trumps all other concerns about theoretical abuses of DNA databases, which is a separate manageable issue (and just an excuse for perpetuating the status quo). In fact, there doesn’t even need to be a database. The genetic match can be verified and then the DNA destroyed (if people are really so concerned about it). The only thing that would need to be kept on the database, is a record of who the actual father is.
Any more excuses for being whores?
Did Tommy boy ever bother to explain why people who aren’t in favor of mandatory genetic testing are whores?
Actually Tom, I think the word your looking for is bitch.
Honestly, tommy done more to remove the burn of being called a whore or slut…
I wonder how his mother couldn’t be a whore. He was hatched maybe?
And nary a concern about how this grossly violates at least one other country’s Constitution. After all, it is all about the children (that Tom does not really care about.)
Cassandra: Imagine, as a non-custodial mother, you spend 2 years paying child support to the father of your child, but then as the child gets older, and you begin to suspect that the child isn’t yours, you ask for a maternity test, find out the baby ISN’T yours, but then go to the courts, and get told by the judge that regardless, because you didn’t ask for the test within the first year, you are legally the mother and therefore liable for 16 more years of child support. Furthermore, the man you’re paying it to, knew all along you weren’t the mother, but somehow or other duped you into believing you were, and regardless, just keep handing over the dough to him – then get back to me about whether “whore” is the right term or not.
Any OTHER excuses for not changing the system?
In order for that to be a valid reason to change the system, Tom, paternity fraud would need to be far more widespread than it is. You’d also need to resolve all the potential legal issues (which you blithely dismiss), and you’d need the support of a critical mass of the population (which you don’t have).
If you want to change the way the system works, and you live in a democracy, there are ways to do that. If you really think this is vitally important, then get to work. Calling woman whores on the Internet isn’t going to change anything.
But hey, you got through an entire comment without using the word “whore”. Keep it up for a while and people may even start to take you seriously.
That is not how the system works in the US nor do I imagine in the UK.
Also, Tom, you do realize that you’re slipping up and showing everyone what your real issues are, right? The fact that you’re more concerned about money than child welfare is coming through loud and clear.
PrincessBonBon,
“He doesn’t care about children!”
You’re just making things up now.
False allegations bad.
But well done for taking part. Yes you can!
Cassandra:
Explain how a child’s welfare is damaged by knowing who their real father is automatically.
But Tommy…. is it the poor women, who will be freed of jealousies when they have paternity tests for every child?
Or is it the child, who will know who daddy is?
Or is it the man, who knows the court ordered child support is money he can’t weasel out of, because the kid is his?
As I said, if you can get a system, which doesn’t inconvenience men patented (foolproof, of course, less than .001 false positives), I’ll fund it.
Nice strawman, Tom. Now how about you get back to the point? If you think this is an important issue, you need to engage with the democratic process in order to change things. Arguing with people on blogs does not result in changes to the legal system.
Y’know, Tom, there could be a fund for fathers who want to take a DNA test — or does it have to be a state-ordered mandatory DNA test (for some reason) to work for you?
The thing is, in this economy, lots of really important things are going underfunded; but maybe you and Paul Elam or someone could throw some money into the pot on your respective sides of the ocean, and then the whore men who want to access these funds can get tested.
Cassandra: It’s possible that Tom is leery of having another serious involvement with the law.
Doesn’t matter how leery he is – arguing with people on the Internet still isn’t going to bring about the changes that he wants.
Of course in order to actually engage in the democratic process he’d need to settle on an argument, and in general wrangle his muddled ideas into some sort of order. To be fair, that does seem to be beyond his capabilities.
The minute he starting talking about how women are whores is when he showed us what he’s really about.
PrincessBonBon,
This indeed IS how the system works on paternity fraud:
tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternity_fraud
abegoesbuzz,
Women do not have to pay anything for their maternity to be verified at birth with an identity bracelet placed on the child etc, or if any other complications arise, so men should not have to pay for it either. It should be a basic human right that every government should pay for, you miserly whore.
Nope, it is pretty clear you could care less about the children. If you did care about them it would not be “find out who the father is by forcing all men to take paternity tests regardless of cost to the system, cost to families, cost to society, and the civil rights of men.”
It would be “how do we make sure that children have enough food, shelter, and other needs taken care regardless of who the father is?” Because that is actually more important.
Oh they are. Unfortunately for you this is not a false allegation.
*pats you on the head* It is okay, one day you might snap out of it.
“Oh shit, he’s winning the arguments. Let’s pick faults in him not stressing how much it will save the children enough, even though that’s bleeding obvious and we can’t explain how it will damage the children in any way, only how it will mildly inconvenience whores. I think we’re getting away with it though.But It’s okay if we aren’t I suppose, because we’re whores and we feel no shame.”
I’m impressed. The cognitive dissonance dampers are really powerful. I don’t know where he got them but it’s either that, or a ring-bearing in his neck to keep up with the spinning and direction changes as he moves those goalposts.
He’s dull, but industrious.
One of the points that has just gone right over Tom’s little pointy head is the point that if a man decides to get a paternity fraud test where it turns out he is not a father of a child, he most likely will no longer have access to that child.