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.
I think you missed my point, Tommy. Quelle surprise, eh?
Oh, and Kevin worte a Bible of sorts. (Seriously) and in it he writes this about women: http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/poison.html#wom
Soundly like a lovely person, no?
TW: Mentions of rape in a fic.
Reading Tom Martin always, always seems to remind me of this ooooold FFVII fic where Aerith was forced by Hojo to have sex with Nanaki FOR SCIENCE (and babies), and while they’re doing this, one soldier just randomly screams WHORE!
It’s just… I’m reading his words, but he’s just so incredibly boring, I’m literally replacing the comments with an image of Hojo all flustered at the animal!porn FOR SCIENCE. And for some strange reason, it actually makes his shit tolerable. Tom, you’re actually more disgusting than a horny Professor Hojo.
… I’m pretty sure nobody wanted to know this. My sincerest apologies. And I think I’ll go find some Hiddles pictures to bleach my brain with.
So, your device. What does it do?
To hell with the device, how do you “do x while dancing”? Solve for ‘x’.
You show me your inventions and I’ll show you mine.
How about this for a feminist invention. Warren Farrell is an extremist misogynist according to these never read a men’s rights movement book screamers:
There’s another video out there on this prostest, where they ask a woman why she’s prostesting against Warren Farrell speaking, and she says “Er… what was it that it said on the poster? Sorry. I don’t know” or words to that effect. A critical mass of the completely clueless. Now where does that remind me of?
Isn’t Warren Farrell the incest advocate?
Oh fuck it, look who I’m talking to. Bloody Stupid Martin probably thinks the sun shines out of Farrell’s backside.
I don’t need to see your invention or know what it’s operating principle is, I just want to know what the phrase ‘do x while dancing’ means. Because without that piece of information, your claim to have invented something to facilitate it is essentially meaningless.
PS – I invented the goulash pizza.Note that both ‘goulash’ and ‘pizza’ are real things.
Yeah, I’m not going to tell you my trade secrets in the hopes that you’ll explain an invention that doesn’t exist and performs a function you cannot explain.
(For the record, I consider my method of finishing a section of loom-woven beadwork into a multi-string clasp to constitute an invention for these purposes, since I have never seen it suggested elsewhere and I’ve looked quite hard. But I’m not going to explain how I do it, becaue fuck you that’s why.)
I was talking with a couple of women today who turned out to be switched on fems who knew who I am saying “You’re the guy who sued LSE for hard chairs” so I pointed out it had been misreported by the Times, West End Extra, and manboobz, and one of them said “Manboobz is a troll”.
I never use the t word, but what could they mean?
Warren Farrel? You mean the guy who claims in his “myth of male power” book that being fired is like being raped for men?
Yeah, I totally trust that guy to be an advocate for men’s issues. Just like I trust Tom The Pedophilia Apologist Martin.
Thenatfantastic said:
Isn’t Warren Farrell the incest advocate?
I read an interview Farrell did with Penthouse magazine I think in the early 80s where he said that sometimes children who are victims of incest enjoy the act, but then become traumatized by the way the authorities are so horrified, as if a violent crime had taken place, when incest is more typically experienced in a loving milieu, not violence. He wasn’t advocating incest. He was making a subtle point. It would be very interesting to find out what percentage of anti MRM ‘feminists’ have actually read one of his books (given that he is the wellspring of the men’s rights movement).
There are a lot here making comments of empowerment about not having watched the debate or any of my videos or read any MRM books.
Manboobzer fems often argue “What’s he on about? What an idiot!” The old “I don’t understand him, therefore he is stupid” argument.
Ughh, that hearts poison…all I can say is “oh look, someone read a little Neitchez and some first year philosophy” and “oops, looks like someone misunderstands bhuddist thinking” and ” oh what a hero! You just keep patting yourself on the back for bravery and wisdom in spouting some of the oldest most dehumanizing thinking of philosophy like you came up with it yourself. I like how if I choose to ignore you or say nothing its because I’m being passive just like I’m designed to be, but if I tell you you’re full of shit I’m being emotional or deceptive just like I was designed to be”. That’s a nice bit of circular, self justifying egotism there.
Tulgeylogger, what Warren Farrell books have you read?
pillowinhell, saying “you’re full of shit” is inarticulate.
Tulgeylogger, you’re falsely claiming I am a pedophilia apologist.
Tom, when you’re capable of rational thought I may deign to use more articulate language when speaking to you. As it stands, I wished to be certain you got the point.
Cool story, bro. Now how do you ‘do x while dancing’? What is ‘x’ in this context?
pillowtalk, I’ve just been reading the comments on the UCL debate where at least one person thinks I’m rational, suggesting I should go on a university tour. I quite like the idea. What do manboobzers think?
[cloudiah raises hand and waits to be recognized, because cloudiah always properly follows Robert’s Rules of Order. I would like to make a motion that the Tom Martin threads be closed, at least to Tom Martin, because he’s an ass, and if he hasn’t been able to make his point already in a 1600+ thread… well, it ain’t gonna happen. He needs to move on.
Is there a second?
Seconded!
People identifying as ‘feminist’ wanting to close down a debate. What a shocker!
Thirded.
Nooo! My chew toy! The thrill of new ramblings from someone totally incapable of clarifying his statements, because his only principle is that he hates women! The joy of mocking the willfully oblivious!
Is that one person you?
You do realize that it will take more than one person thinking you’re not only capable of coherent though (very low bar for higher education) but also competant in you’re course work and understanding.? That at least some of those people will be women? And that if you turn in a shit paper full of grammatical errors you will earn a failing grade by default?
Yes, thirded. Bored now.
Viola, there will be others to chew on.