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, how did you feel about those full-body TSA screenings? You know, the ones that took pictures of you naked, and they promised not to show to anyone, and then 100 of them got leaked?
Also of note is that in Tom’s world, women falsely accuse men of rape all the time. Those whores with their false accusations and their sperm-stealing and their paternity fraud and their entrapping men by having babies at them.
All about the equality, of course. Not about punishing those filthy women for having reproductive systems attached to the vaginas they charge too much for Tom to use. Definitely the equality.
I also, as always, think it’s fascinating the idea that false rape accusations only come from women you’ve had sex with.
If women are so prone to making up accusations (having their friends and families know about it whether they want it or not, dealing with “you were asking for it” shit, spending hours in the ER, getting a pelvic exam, spending hours in the police station, months to years of more “you were asking for it” shit, then going to court to have a jury tell you that you were asking for it… fun), why can’t they make up accusations about any old guy?
I feel like there’s something revealing in the MRA attitude that they worry tremendously that their sex might be “misinterpreted” or “regretted,” and very little that a false rape accusation could come at them for any other reason.
Tom, much like misandry really isn’t a thing, false rape accusations aren’t the HUGE GIANT OMFG DEAL that you MRAs like to think.
So, no, I don’t really give a fuck. Here’s a thought, don’t be rapey.
Molly the difference with the TSA screening pictures, is that they weren’t automatically scrambled (and no, I don’t give a shit about someone perving at an x ray, because I’m smart enough to look at the bigger picture)
HellKell,
Which other guy had the idea of recording sexual encounters on mobile phones on an app which automatically scrambles it and sends it to a central agency where it can only be unscrambled by a police investigation?
There are no solutions for everything, but it would make rape/false rape claims a lot riskier, as either party would never be certain that the other party isn’t recording it.
Here’s a mobile phone DV protection system that is far from perfect, but I doubt any of you poured any scorn on it at the time:
http://www.womensaid.org.uk/page.asp?section=000100010010000400010001
Is it because you’re sexists?
Hey Tom, if I record guys having sex with me to prove I didn’t rape them, does that make me a whore?
One of our other trolls had a similar idea, Tom. Only I think he wanted the encrypted data sealed in lucite or some such bullshit. It was every bit as dumb as your idea, don’t worry your pretty head.
Somehow, I doubt Tom would feel the same way if a video of him having sex was shown to an entire court room.
yeah dawg, ‘phone calls police’ and ‘phone secretly records you having sex’ are totally the same thing. that is not a thing a that sounds fucking nuts at all.
HellKell said:
Tom, much like misandry really isn’t a thing, false rape accusations aren’t the HUGE GIANT OMFG DEAL that you MRAs like to think.
So, no, I don’t really give a fuck. Here’s a thought, don’t be rapey.
But Hellkell,
Women are four times more misandric than men are misogynistic (Goodwin and Rudman 2004), so when you say misandry isn’t a real thing much like false rape, you obviously mean like misandry false rape is a big thing, but that you’re either ignorant or lying or trying to joke about it – and indeed you are.
False rape is between 50 to 90% of claims. Rape allegations have gone up 9 fold since 1985.
Some people ARE rapey Hellkell, and I’m trying to make suggestions for reducing it, and you’re just being a douche.
Hellkell, just because you own a vagina doesn’t mean you don’t need to engage your brain before you speak.
You’re even too much of a cunt for THIS website.
Uh oh, we got a bad case of “why would you mind a courtroom of strangers watching you have sex with your rapist, unless you have something to hide?” here.
hey tom i can whip up an app that auto-dials random women and calls them whores, would that be an okay tradeoff in your book?
Tom you misandric whore! What is it with you? First you want to ruin mens civil rights by forcing them to prove paternity and now you want to violate their civil rights by having them record their sex lives for posterity? All for false allegations that are fairly uncommon. And won’t provide them with the protection they hope for and or will strip them of other rights and liberties.
So talking points
1 women are whores
2 mens asses are too skinny to sit on chairs (that’s new for an MRA ten points)
3 women lie about paternity all the time
4 women steal sperm and or trick men
5 women simoultaneously don’t want sex but want sex from mythical men
6 your sex life is determined by an alphabet
7 secretly taping your sex life will somehow protect you
8 men don’t really want children but should have access to them no matter what
Do I have bingo yet?
Aw, Tom called me a cunt! How sweet!
No, cucake, words mean things, and I meant exactly what I said. Not what you’re twisting around, you disingenuous windbag from hell.
FRAs are 50-90% of all claims? CITATION NEEDED.
But hey, dipshit, answer me this: if you’re so fucking smart, how come our trolls can never figure out blockquotes?
What exactly does that study say? Because I really really doubt that it’s the misandry-o-meter reading you’re presenting it as.
BULL. SHIT. Such bullshit. I’d cite you numbers, but you know what? Fuck your bullshit.
I salute your restraint in not just typing “100% because rape all the whores.” It must burn, that restraint. Must buuuurrrn.
Ladies and gentleman, a man of equality, a man who is not at all misogynistic, a man who is trying to make things better for the men of England and the world, one whore cunt at a time.
I want a t-shirt that says “Too much of a cunt for Manboobz,” just to make it all official-like and shit.
No, seriously, most MRA false rape statistics are derived from one of three sources:
1) An examination of reports in one (undisclosed) Midwestern town, with no information on how accusations were determined to be false.
2) Statistics showing the number of rape accusations that were considered “unfounded,” in the sense that there was insufficient evidence, which hardly means it didn’t happen. (Also in some cases things like “she previously had consensual sex with the man” were thrown on the “unfounded” pile.)
3) Your own stupid, incredibly gullible, misogynistic, rape-celebrating asses.
HollyPervocracy,
Police investigators are currently tasked with watching child porn to establish what acts of abuse have taken place by the adults in the video and by the distributors and viewers of that material – but they do it because there are more important issues at stake than the modesty of the rapist/false accuser and the victim. You don’t need all twelve jurers to view it. There’s no need for popcorn. There need be no sketch artist recreating the court scenes for the 10 O’Clock news.
When you report a rape a rape kit has to be administered, but modesty does not get in the way of that.
Someone is accusing someone of RAPE! A serious crime – which might see someone sent to prison for 30 years in some cases.
That would be like having a pain in your genitals, but refusing to go to a doctor, because of the theoretical embarrassment of showing it to a trained professional who can help you. What an idiotic objection!
Holly, it’s usually behind Door #3, as is everything Tom has said in this thread.
so trying to protect women being beaten by their partners is JUST the same as protecting men from false rape allegations? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
compare and contrast:
False Rape
with:
Domestic Violence:
Why, is this your “invention,” Tom? Worried maybe some other guy patented it first?
Briefly stepping back from my anger… man, the data management problem this would present. I mean, I’ve had sex with my boyfriend like three hundred times. So he had to record my consent every time, set up the camera every time (possibly set up the camera surreptitiously every time?), and then a huge data file (the boy can go for hours, I’m not kidding) has to be generated and then it has to be securely scrambled and then it has to be transmitted to this enormous central database where it is kept scrambled and yet identifiable.
…I’ll say this, your plan would create jobs.
+1,000,000! Someone, please make it happen.
and also, just to add about the phone thingy being a personal alarm…i’m gonna guess that men can use them too, it’s not like genetically coded or anything
Seriously, in the hard sciences they are still totally flummoxed by the issue of “big data” (and its attendant metadata) even though they have tons of money to throw at the problem. Throw in issues of human subject protection and privacy laws, like they have with medical records — no one has solved this yet. But to Tom, it’s simple.