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.
“Youtube: Most valuable tool for academic research or only legitimate tool for academic research” Tom Martin, MA (failed).
Also – X. What is it. What does it have to do with dancing?
Holy fuck cakes, this must be the longest thread in Manboobz history. I’d read it, except, uh, it’s the longest thread in Manboobz history.
Yeah, Tom is funny for a few minutes, but since you can’t actually engage with him, it gets old.
At least he doesn’t drag the conversation into other threads.
None. It would be a waste of time when I already know how badly wrong many of his claims are. It would be way too much work to sort out the tendentious interpretations and presentation of evidence from the truth. He is not a trustworthy source of information.
You’ve already stated that you don’t think that having sex with children is not rape. Have you changed your stance on this issue, or do you still think that child prostitutes should be “prosecuted for preying on the mentally ill pedo population”?
Anyway, I am fourthing the Tom Martinbargo. Martin, you’re just not worth dealing with unless you publicly renounce all forms of pedophilia apologetics.
Come on! You can do it! (Technically. But I don’t expect it.)
Pillowtalk says: Is that one person [who says you should go on a university tour] you?
No, it’s your mother.
“Close down the debate!”
An articulate former UCL student once said:
First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win.
I take it manboobzers do not want me to embark on a university debate tour then, which, given this forum’s collectively heightened level of wrongness about everything, can only mean one thing…
<deadpan>This question sure rings of good faith.</deadpan>
I’ve read research, that shows people who go round expressing homophopic sentiment, claiming how wrong it is and how they want to punish homosexualsetcetc tend to be more inclined to show homosexual arousal patterns their self. They are more likely to be latent homosexuals, but cannot admit to themselves or others that they’re gay, so present the image that they are vehemently not gay.
I hypothicate, that those people who go round claiming everyone’s a pedophile etc, or a pedophile apologist etc,etc, and how any discussion about pedos is pedophilia itself etc etc might be struggling with their own pedophilic instincts.
A lot of women are up to children. It could explain the behaviour of these women’s groups going into pedo hysteria about Warren Farrell, who is a men’s equality advocate and real feminist.
To all those people saying they won’t bother reading men’s rights books because they’ve heard bad reports, that would be like writing off all of feminism because manboobz. I took the time to read feminist books, not just the reviews of unpublished anonymous internet snarks.
Also, I challenge anyone to read these excerpts from Farrell’s Penthouse interview and tell me that Tom Martin’s hand-waving interpretation accurately reflects what Farrell says:
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/fathers/farrell2.htm
Sweet Jesus preserve us! Please tell me that disgusting piece of filth does not have and will never have children!
Since some boys and six out of two hundred girls survive that experience realatively unscathed we should encourage more preverted parents into committing incest?
I have seen so many slimy, disgusting and outright deplorable things justified on the net I’m relatively numb. But THAT made my stomach turn, especially with the propfessional grade “I’ve done this before and know how to deflect censure away from myself” grade victim blaming.
Someone please pass the bleach before I claw my eyes out..
Someone
..Please?
pillow, hie thee to this thread and scroll up to my puppy videos.
Hey, if you listen to X on a record player and dance too hard, you could get skipping noises! How’ve you fixed this, Tom? Got an iPod?
Ahhh! Sweet, sweet relief!
Here is some brain bleach. Don’t know if I’ve posted it before.
Oh my – silly puppeh! Hope he learned sweatshirt sleeves and dogs’ heads don’t mix after that!
Ugh. That Penthouse piece is awful. But not surprising. I actually have read the Myth of Male Power. It’s completely the MRA play book. Every chapter brings a new way to absolve abusers of their responsibility, while placing the blame for everything at the feet of women. It’s an interesting read if you want to look at the development of the MRA as an abusers’ lobby, and it shows that the MRM really never was a legitimate “civil rights” organization. Which I guess we all knew, but it’s something to throw in the face of people who claim the MRM is/was legit, but just has some bad mouthpieces. Buuuut, t’s also really horrifying in a way that I find harder to handle than just shutting my laptop lid.
Tom’s pretty adept at avoiding any sort of actual conversation. Fifth(?)ing.
There’s a recent thread at SRS about Warren Farrell, so tonight has been “Learn About Warren Farrell Night” for me.
Here’s the second worst thing he said that I’ve seen:
http://i.imgur.com/cwSoc.png
Gross.
Tulgey: AIEEE NEED MORE BLEACH
And then there’s this for brain bleach:
http://youtu.be/om-A-KB59Qo
Farrell and Bloody Stupid Martin in one thread? We’re going to need an entire bucket of bleach.
Nope. People go on about Farrell as a pedophile because he advocates “genital petting” (read sexual assualt and grooming) is something parents should do to show their children love (the single most common justification pedos use when caught)because a very tiny percentage of kids exposed to that abuse don’t end up extremely screwed up.
Now, I don’t know if Farrell molests kids. But as a decent human being and parent, what he has to say tells me that my kids would be at extreme risk around him. Certainly not a situation or man I’d let them anywhere near.
Tommy Boy: pillowinhell, saying “you’re full of shit” is inarticulate.
It’s quite articulate. It may not be (context dependent) appropriate (this is not, I think, a claim that can be made here). It may be wrong, but it clearly makes a claim, i.e. it articulates a position.
Trying to attack what you may see as someone being mean, or even pedestrian doesn’t make you look smart, esp. when you coin pointless neologisms such as, “hypothicate”, in lieu of the perfectly apt, hypothesize. just makes it more plain that you are full of shit.
Tom Martin: Pecunium, that is an impressive list of 25 things 25 clearly awesome women have invented.
And all other inventions…
This is what you always say… You say (repeatedly), shit like, “all women are whores”. (I’m going to ignore, for the nonce; the way you abuse language with that word alone, because while that’s a whole ‘bother rabbit hole of fractal stupidity and recto-cranial impaction. I am convinced you have your head so far up you ass you can see the sun when you open your mouth).
Then when people point out that “not all women are X:, which was your claim, you change the terms of the debate.
You said women don’t do/invent things which make the world a better happier place. That’s a categorical statement.
That list shows your statement to be false (this is why you can’t; not just didn’t, actually survive a school like LSE… you are ill-educated, and not very smart; clever perhaps, but not, so far as the evidence reveals, possessed of much native intelligence. See your lack of rhetorical flair. Dude, Steele looks to be a virtuoso of style, and dramatic prose, when compared to you).
I could list a million things women have done, and continue to do, and you would still say, “so what, it’s only women and they suck”. I did list things, over hundreds of years, and you said, “so what, I still hate women, so you’re wrong.”
Your id is showing. It’s small, wrinkled, and insecure. I mean it. Dude, you came back to a thread a thread which was written nine months ago, like a dog to its vomit; and dove back in, not once, but twice; months between the returns. You must like the abuse. That or (sad as that is) no one is paying you any attention, and you need us (of all people) to provide some semblance of intellectual interaction.
Viola said: 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!
Viola, let me clarify. I love women. I hate prostitution. There is, I maintain, a difference.
I indeed don’t hypothicate but do hypothesize, that those people who go round claiming everyone’s a pedophile etc, or a pedophile apologist etc,etc, and how any discussion about pedos is pedophilia itself etc etc might be struggling with their own pedophilic instincts.
Lowquacks,
The band you link to, X, sound like they’re ripping off The Pixies, who sound like they’re ripping off this band:
Pecunium said:
This is what you always say… You say (repeatedly), shit like, “all women are whores”.
Pecunium,I have never said “all women are whores”. On the contrary, I have repeatedly said,about 97% of women are whores, as only about 3% of women have renounced prostitution in all its forms.
Yes you can (but will you?)