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.
…If nothing else, this tells me that guys with brilliant “secretly record it” plans expect everyone’s sex to be infrequent, brief, and without too much moving around.
:p
I’m having visions of a sci-fi short story where a committed couple, setting up the camera for the 5th time that day, suddenly says “The Hell with it!” and has UNDOCUMENTED SEX! The transgression! The horror! A strange idea called “trust” threatens to overthrow the Big Brother state!
We will only ever know the precise rate of false rape allegations when fMRI lie detector brain scans are administered on everyone who claims they were raped (which I am all for – fuck your civil rights you lying whores).
If I were to place a £1 bet on the actual rate of falseys they find, I would say 82% false, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were 92% false (or more), as even successful rape prosecutions are the number one crime people get wrongly imprisoned for, then eventually released thanks to the work of the Innocence Project.
That FBI study from the 1980s found 25% of imprisoned rape convicts’ DNA did not match the scene of the crime, and when we consider that even a DNA match does not indicate a rape took place necessarilly, merely that there was some contact (potentially consenting), then I think it would very crap of manboobzers to pretend falseys aren’t a real thing like they pretend with misandry.
Maybe after being sent to prison for a crime you didn’t commit, you might change your minds about the seriousness and extent of falseys (and misandry). I’m all for sending manboobzers to prison.
‘Scumbags’ doesn’t quite do you justice.
“Oh, its just a joke.”
Go fuck yourselves.
Well that right there is enough to make Toms plan a fail right there. WE’RE ALL WHORES REMEMBER? AND MEN SHOULD GET GOOD VALUE FOR THEIR MONEY!
Based on his ego, I think it might wind up as part of his appeal. I feel terrible for the poor lady who was a part.
Unless of course he was just doing the solo thing.
If I ruled the world, I would have “fuck your civil rights you lying whores” appended to every news article about Tom Martin.
It’s something that everyone going “well, gender studies can be awfully woman-centric and maybe a shakeup was needed…” about this case needs to see.
for the hard of thinking on this blog
1. nobody says false allegations do not occur
2. are you planning on using the fmri for all crimes, just to make sure people are not lying…after all did they have witnesses that someone broke in and stole their telly. Maybe it’s an insurance scan.
also:
so what about that 22% chance of being wrong?
And if the numbers turn out to be reversed? That it turns out that 82% of all accusations are true?
What then?
Scratch the surface of any MRA, and “fuck your civil rights you lying whores” is what you find. At least, every one that I’ve met so far.
In one of my classes for my job they talked about a study done on who can determine who is lying-the best spotters are Secret Service peeps.
What a shock, Tom is pro-rape.
I’m kind of digging his little meltdown the deeper we get. He’s such a little onion of nastiness, always a new layer of ick.
Wonder if he’ll have a complete meltdown? I mean, he’s been at it for days and has gone from smug and slimy superiority to “fuck your civil rights”. Methinks he can’t take much more…
But then they never can. Can you imagine this guy waking up a woman one day? And having to deal with people who think the way he does?
That would be divine justice right there.
And the UK’s own stats say that a MINIMUM of 8% of rape claims are ‘provably false’ but this avoids mentioning estimates of all the others where there’s ‘insufficient evidence’ where the likelihood is a LARGE chunk are also false – so fem claims that its 2% or 3% are patently ridiculous – especially when cops think its more like 90%.
Baroness Scotland got up in the House of Lords and said it was 2 to 3%, and it is recorded in Hansard, that she was contradicting her own Home Office’s statistics.
STOP LYING ABOUT RAPE YOU WHORES!
Seriously, its so demoralizing working on a rape unit, that the cop who processes the rape claim now gets moved onto another case, so they don’t get corrupted by the realization that so many women are lying and then miss the odd real one due to overwhelming skepticism.
Fem whores will always resist anything that holds rape accusers to account.
They know.
Quoted for being the inevitable end of every troll on this blog. They’re all reasonable-ish (um, if “whores” and secret videorecording is reasonable) until they run into some women who disagree with them, and don’t stop disagreeing even when they’ve been clearly told to, then you’re about five minutes away from “fuck your civil rights you lying whores.”
Right? The only people who deserve civil rights are people we agree with! Oh wait, no, I don’t think that, I meet minimum standards of human decency.
So it’s 8%… which is probably 90% because WHORES?
But whatever. It’s not like it matters, right? Fuck your civil rights you lying whores. After that, really no point in arguing the details.
@pillowinhell: Tom waking up as a woman would be worth recording, for sure.
Uh, Tom… yeah, I’m gonna have to go ahead and need a citation for what you said about the demoralization of cops because WHORES… yeah, thanks.
Sometimes my whore brain gets so confused! Tee hee!
You base this on what?
Your extensive experience being a cop? Or your extensive experience in pulling facts out of your ass?
Here’s a few false allegations in action:
Tom’s ass is a fascinating place where all the facts seem to live. None of these facts can withstand daylight, but nothing’s perfect, amirite?
Um can we create a challenge for Tom?
I suggest that he recites three rape cases that he believes is rape and the women were victims.
Oh, I see-extensive experience watching American sensationalized TV.
Well I am totally convinced….that Tom needs to not watch TV.
tommy boy, did you not bother read the stats i gave which debunk the 8% rate in the UK, and back up the 2-3% cited by the Baronness? here it is again for you:
You know what’s funny? For all Tom’s grand schemes with encrypted videotape central warehousing and fMRIs and magic consent apps, there’s already a way for society to deal with false accusations.
Hold a police investigation, hear the accusation in court, allow both sides to present arguments and evidence, and allow a judge and jury to make a ruling on whether they believe beyond a reasonable doubt that a rape was committed.
It’s far from a perfect system, but you know, it just might work.