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.
Yes, yes you are in your own world.
In reality, BBC is actually a large organization, the fact that they kept a report going over a few hours when someone had a retraction is not proof that they are anti-male. It is at best proof they need to be quicker at updating their reporting and/or they should hold off until all of the facts are in when reporting on a criminal matter.
It is not a false rape accusation-a false rape accusation is a completely made up tale of rape that the person later admits was completely made up. This is a situation of mistaken identity that took a while to be corrected and sadly someone was affected briefly by it.
And yes, I am straight, single, and taking applications.
PrincessBonbob,
I was doing some home improvements that day, so listening to the same station, Radio 4, all day – they kept reverting back to the old accusatory story, despite reporting the mistaken identity at other times. Then John Redwood complained about this intransigence – and they kept doing it!
The BBC is in line for a little bit of direct action.
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And when something discriminates more against men what do we call it? Could it be ………. misandry? /sarcasm
We ridicule your complaint because you frame a regular complaint (these chairs are uncomfortable) as a male complaint. If you just said “Hey LSE, your library chairs are really uncomfortable, how about we get some new ones?” none of us would care.
I’d like to know how the chairs can discriminate against men. Are they made of sapient pearwood?
Aw look, Tommy thinks he is nuanced and at all credible while going around using terms like “trad whores.” I’m sure Foucault said it somewhere, too.
Lets, see here…
Nope, sounds just as ridiculous.
Can we send Tom on a field trip to Saudi? Please? He can try to perform “research” on the streets of Riyadh and get himself arrested, and then spend the next few months whining about how the mutaween is secretly controlled by “housewhores”.
Can anyone tell me, are there videos of Tom (or people arguing on the same side as Tom) in which he says, out loud, the same sort of things he has written in this thread. That would surprise me. I don’t have the time or inclination to watch them, just curious.
Been busy with NaNoWriMo, and missed Toms latest appearance… not much new, just doubling down on self evident bullshit… oh, girl being shot in the head “that should teach her to say the things I think she should say instead of the things she wanted to say”… well isn’t that special? More bullshit about chairs… hey how’s the seating in LSE lecture halls? They could make those more comfortable using the money you owe them from your idiotic nuisance suit… more on idiotic theories on practical Islam… actually just the same idiotic theory… and one of those conspiracy theories that only work if you assume a large organisation operates the same way that an individual does.
So, didn’t miss much. Hardly worth even mocking.
Tom’s reasoning is so bizarre that the only way I can think to address it is with …
A FIND/REPLACE PARTY!
Carleyblue, I suspect he knows just as much as we do that ideas such as “women owe men positive discrimination in university curricula [after generations of positive discrimination in favor of men, for some reason]” are completely laughable, and so would never dare to freely distribute their amused reactions to his nonsense.
Their amused reactions = the amused reactions of the general audience I assumed he would be saying such things to, although I guess it’s not unreasonable that he would do videos of himself speaking on youtube.
@Tulgey Logger Thanks, that’s what I would think too, but some people really have no sense of how (most) other people really percieve them.
Oh, his youtube account does have one video of himself in public, but it’s mostly in regard to the LSE and “sexism against men”:
Not sure if he brings up his “97% of women are whores” theory, but I do like how he has the nerve to name his account (and his website) “sexism busters.”
Check it out, a chair that doesn’t discriminate against men!
I’m a biologist, and I don’t recall ever seeing any research on “trad whores.”
Shit, I just got a horrible shock. Tom Martin looks almost exactly like this guy I was seeing for a short time. Couldn’t have been him, though, since this guy insisted on paying for everything! By the way, I will always say that I can pay for myself on dates (on the rare occassions on which they occur), but if the guy insists, what am I supposed to do?
“Muslim women can largely go where they want.
Muslim women are supposed to get their husbands’ permission for certain activities, like work and travel, but it is largely symbolic, as while Islam teaches that men are the boss, it also teaches that men cannot do anything that makes their wives unhappy.”
Yes, just go ahead and ignore the hadith that tells women that they can’t lawfully refuse their husbands’ sexual advances and the Koranic verse that explicitly says that women are supposed to obey their husbands or else they will be punished through sexual withdrawl, beatings, and “admonishment”. It’s not symbolic; all of these misogynist rulings are derived from authentic Islamic sources.
“Islam allows Muslim men to object to their womenfolk doing certain things on safety grounds, which suits muslewhore perfectly, because they get told no occassionally, but usually for things they’s rather avoid anyway (like working at night).”
No, Muslim men are allowed to stop their wives from doing anything so long as they aren’t forcing their wives to disobey God’s teachings. Also, those “safety grounds” you speak of include the “danger” of a woman being a “temptation” for other men. Do you really think those are legitimate concerns?
No one cares, no one cares, NO ONE CARES (not if you were the last man on Earth).
With anybody else, I wouldn’t necessarily think that ‘taking applications’ was a literal thing, but, well.
Now come on HellKell, let us think of all the fun questions that might be on Tom’s little questionnaire=,
*gets out her pen to fill out the Tom Martin’s Application To Date Him*
Name: PrincessBonBon
Age: 33
Residence: United States of America, FUCK YEAH
Number of Children: 0
Interest in marriage: Only to the extent the man makes a good asset on the campaign trail.
How much of a whore are you?: I am a politician, ‘nuf said.
Would you be willing to relocate? No.
Chairs with no padding are?: MISANDRY because poor men have flat asses and that means that they have less time to be sitting in chairs with no padding.
Balding men are: only sexy when they are Kojack.
Saudi Arabia is a feminist paradise, true or false? False
…..
First question: “Do you reject prostitution in all its forms?”
Do you?