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.
Oooh, I know how we can deal with the data issue! We can just have cameras everywhere, including private homes. Then, we can set up a giant force of people to watch the video feeds all the time and only record the crimes. If you’re against it, that’s only because you’re an overly modest WHORE who doesn’t want to stop crime.
Related to pillowinhell’s challenge idea — Tom, how do you define rape? How do you define a false rape accusation?
ugh poop block quote fail my bad
It has since 1166-with modifications of course. 🙂
In which case, of course, fuck your civil rights!
Tom you need to check out a thesaurus for some new insults. Whore has totally lost any shock value whatsoever. Keep it entertaining will you.
“Overly modest WHORE” is not a phrase I hear a lot.
Anyway.
Apparently this isn’t Tom Martin’s first time saying this shit in public:
http://www.westendextra.com/news/2012/mar/inflated-rape-figures-claim-ex-student-suing-lse-tom-martin-says-sex-slavery-%E2%80%9Cvoluntar
my daughter believes in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus
Tom believes that 50-90% or rape claims are false
Tom, I don’t understand your life. It is so completely out of touch with the reality that I know. What is your everyday life like? What do you eat for breakfast, how do you interact with your friends and family, and how do you navigate the world? I really want to know.
I don’t know if this has been added to the conversation or not yet, but here’s the 2004 study Tom Martin referenced. Shockingly enough, he misinterpreted its claims! I have the smelling salts ready for those of us who can’t handle that news.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15491274
Tom’s pushing 40 with both hands and is acting like a teenager? Wow. I’m sure there’s a color code what I just said, but I can’t be arsed to care. He’s old enough to know better.
^for what. Typing, why must you be such a WHORE?
The Home Office commissioned a ‘study’ to recook the books on rape to fit in with the administration’s new position that it thinks rape accusers should be believed.
The reason it is politically expedient to do this for government officials and paid ideologues, is because the true false rape percentage does not particularly matter – so it becomes a political football.
The government were caught telling the police to lie about sex slavery statistics for instance, in the case of Operation Pentameter 2, to make it look like there were sex slaves when there weren’t. The same government who claimed if men went with foreign prostitutes it would be rape. So the government lie about rape all day long.
They claimed there were 80,000 sex slaves (being raped then) in UK, when there were none.
Anyway, another way of measuring the percentage of rape claims that are false, are to consider the cases where incontrovertible evidence has arisen one way or another.
Where multiple witnesses, or photo evidence, or video/cctv/mobile phone evidence has come to light, and where that evidence has been documented by the police, and then simply count how many times this evidence proves a rape did take place, or proves it didn’t.
I can’t remember a single case where video evidence has come to light proving a rape DID take place (although I am certain some will exist).
The great thing about doing the above study is that you’d get some publishable data showing that most investigations where footage comes to light also prove falsity – AND, then you’ve got enough footage for another documentary on your hands.
Call the documentary Rape Lies (and Videotape).
Answer the challenge whoremaster. Cite three rapes you belive are true and the victim was female.
No, really, how do you get through a day? Do you have any female friends? Female family members? What are your intimate relationships like? I really cannot imagine having this level of distrust and hatred towards half of humanity.
What colour is the sky on your planet Tom?
Here’s an article about a woman who was raped on videotape and was arrested for making a “false accusation”:
http://www.now.org/nnt/fall-99/campus.html#arrest
(For everyone but Tom: BIG OL’ TRIGGER WARNING on that link. FYI.)
The poor menz.
damn, those lying whores are just everywhere
the color of television, turned to a dead channel
shorter Tom:
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the proof, which is backed up by more proof from somewhere else, doesn’t fit my theory
This is evidence of a feminazilizard global conspiracy.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU…GETTING IT ON, AND DNA TESTING ALL YOUR BABIES JUST FOR BACKUPS.
Really, I am having flashbacks to the scene in 1984 where they find out there’s a telescreen in their rented room and that the Big Brother people watched/listened to them get it on.
Additional fun question with the fascist dna test forcing, what about identical twins? My aunt has three children to a pair of identical twins. She even got the welfare people to waive any paternity issues around the one because paternity couldn’t be determined. My cousin’s father is one of a set of identical twins, both of whom slept with her mother during the time period in which the conception could have occurred. The other two have their paternity known based on the timing of the twins prison stays. Now, considering that it is scientifically impossible at the moment to know who is the one child’s biological father, who goes to jail?
And, I do wonder why when, according to you, cops think 90% of rape reports are lies they would ever be likely to get strong response from police departments.
I have trouble with the idea that people like Tom really, truly believe what they say, because they do not act in a logical manner for the world they believe exists. If you think that the government makes up statistics because whores and misandry, what were you expecting to get out of your court case? How did you think such a government would react to a man pointing out systemic, Snidely Whiplash-type abuse of men? What plans did you have in place to get your story publicized in the event that the government twirled their mustaches and made you disappear into a prison or a shallow grave?
He also ignores Tetragametic Chimerism which I always found fascinating.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013452?query=TOC&
with regards to the police assessment of rape claims the study also found that:
there’s a reason we establish criteria…so we can have consistent reporting and hopefully minimise prejudice.
and furthermore:
so…that would point to an underreporting of actual rape, and an overclassification of false rape based on prejudice not too far removed from your own
OK, here’s a case where photographic evidence came to light proving that a woman who was accused (and convicted) of making a false rape claim really had been raped:
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110413/NEWS01/704139783
I especially like the part where she got the $500 fine back, but her record won’t be cleared until she has a lawyer file a motion for her.
Now answer the challenge, Tom.