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.
Can someone explain Camille Paglia to me? I have no idea what that’s referencing.
@Tom: You’re not being mocked because no one can refute your oh-so difficult claims, you’re being mocked because it’s the same baseless bullshit we’ve heard time and time again.
Mammoths, is there anything they can’t do?
What I’m seeing as your central complaint is:
So hilarious jokes and laughter seem quite appropriate.
Mammoths can’t rise from the dead so women can hunt them and make douchebags find a new thing to whine about, I guess.
What I don’t understand is, where does his self-described feminism come in? Is it his efforts to teach women not to be whores, and inform them of their duty to humanity to give it up for free?
His self-described feminism comes in so he can use it to counter accusations of mansplaining and misogyny.
Ahhh, truly an activist we can all be proud of!
I totally want to watch the BBC documentary on butt size.
Damn, windshield wipers, x-rays, and computer programming wasn’t enough for you?
Oh, my male friend paid for me at the Pizza King last night, as well as another girl and her boyfriend. I guess I am a whore, then.
But wait! I’m ordering pizza for a guy tonight…so does that make him a whore too, or cancel out my whore status or what?
Tonight on the BBC, Gender Wars: The Politics of Ass Cheeks
Oh. When he said that he was going to explain how the press had misled us I was expecting “btw I didn’t actually complain about the seats, because that would have been silly”
rather than “blah blah buttock pads”.
The bit about how he’s totally justified in calling feminists whores however is so predictable that any one of us could have written it for him.
Tom Martin in a nutshell:
1) Guy chairs are hard and my poor butt can’t take it. WIDESPREAD OPPRESSION!
2) Gender studies courses discriminate against men… somehow. I won’t ever bother explaining exactly how though. I’ll just leave it to the dumb prejudged masses to assume I’m right and scream at straw feminists as usual.
3) Women are whores and feminists are whores. Women also suck and all of men’s problems are directly because of whores. Whores should suck my dick in gratitude because men hunted the mammoth.
Typical MRA indeed. Sounds just like MRAL or AntZ.
There Tom, I took on your “complaint”. Now go back to the bowls of the internet from whence you came from troll.
No no no it’s not a documentary on butt size! It’s about the size of the weight-bearing buttock pads!
Why do women owe you things again?
I like this troll can we keep him??
If we’re counting, men owe women 43 presidents, 3/4 of movie roles, and all but one of the Muppets.
Oh, Zarat, we’re not afraid of you. Go wank to your FOREIGN BRIDE.
Hard chairs, the misandrist HORROR!!! What color is the horror of hard chairs again?
I like how he came to tell us that we were wrong to focus on the chairs as the center of his complaint, only for him to write a good two paragraphs about chairs and then say, “Oh yeah, and there was some other stuff about course materials too.”
“Positive discrimination in university curricula?” LOL
As if men are not the default in academia as in life. Yeah, Tom went to Gender Studies to troll IRL. Too bad they gave a spot to him instead of someone who could have used it.
So, should I apologize to Tesla directly (good thing he’s a vampire) or to you? What have you invented by the way?
You should all read the lengthy list of grievances in his Youtube video.
One of the bulletpoints is about “Dress Codes”, and complains that only men are required to wear ties to work/
Misandric tie-ranny!