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Tom Martin’s “anti-male discrimination” case against the London School of Economics dismissed; he responds by calling his critics “whores.”

Hard wooden chairs: Enemy of men?

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!

More examples here, and here.

And, yes, his Twitter handle is indeed Sexismbusters.org.

EDITED TO ADD: Actual headline today on What Men are Saying About Women:

Tom Martin Faces Slut-Feminist Judge, Motion Denied..

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.

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CassandraSays
CassandraSays
12 years ago

Actually going by Tom’s definition, isn’t any woman who does a job and expects to be paid a prostitute if the person signing the checks happens to be a man? The way he words things I assume that he expects women to be willing to work for free, if their boss is a man, lest they risk being thought of as WHORES.

shaenon
12 years ago

How do hard chairs affect men more? I really don’t see this one at all.

Because of our fat asses, duh.

He’s not even the first misogynist to come up with this. Dave Sim once wrote that women’s well-padded butts were proof that God intended for us to be spanked on a regular basis. But he’s a very special boy.

Okay, I’m off to sue the Sun for burning white people more. RACISM.

Ithiliana
12 years ago

@FelixBC: Oops, sorry: shall repeat to myself and hopefully avoid in future. MYERS ONE E! I’d have just used his blog name but that’s even harder to type from memory, and I’m being lazy.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
12 years ago

About that thing he said about women wanting money from the government…I guess any woman who works a civil service job is also a WHORE? Unless she’s willing to work for free, of course.

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

Tom apparently hasn’t heard that our super-whore powers allow us to cry in the street and get all sorts of goodies.

Ithiliana
12 years ago

Tom: fighting the good fight for the comfort of his scrawny butt

Women in the United States: fighting so that they aren’t forced to carry stillborn children to avoid the horrors of abortion, just like cows and pigs do:

http://www.fem2pt0.com/2012/03/16/legislators-women-are-not-cows-and-pigs/

Tom: do you REALLY think you have anything of value to contribute to feminisms in any country?

Tom Martin
12 years ago

Only prostitutes can eradicate prostitution (by putting price down to zero)

What would happen if professio0nal victim-feminists actually eradicated inequalities though?

They’d all be out of a job, which reminds me:

Blamer Bushfire
12 years ago

Here’s a nice chair for you, Tom.

ozymandias42
12 years ago

Well, I dunno about you, but if the patriarchy were eliminated I’d make quite a bit of money writing memoirs about my experiences eliminating the patriarchy.

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

Yeah, but Tom, no one’s going to fuck a charmer like you for free.

katz
12 years ago

Tom: If all the men in the world refused to buy from prostitutes, whatever that constitutes, what would happen to prostitution?

For that matter, why would putting the price down to zero eliminate it? Lots of people pay for things that are available free. And if the act of prostitution is so objectionable, why isn’t it still objectionable if the price is zero?

(Estimated time to meltdown: 1 hour. I totally thought “two days” for Roberta and didn’t announce it, a mistake I never plan to replicate.)

felixBC
felixBC
12 years ago

Setting the price to zero? So, what’s rape, a dine-and-dash, but the restaurant shouldn’t have charged in the first place?

Polliwog
Polliwog
12 years ago

Only prostitutes can eradicate prostitution (by putting price down to zero)

Am I reading this wrong, or is your argument seriously “prostitution should be eradicated by making prostitutes fuck anyone who asks for free”?

Wow.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
12 years ago

I was really hoping that this one would have a thesis more interesting than “all women should give men sex whenever the men want, or else they’re whores”. The chair thing was false advertising – it gave the impression that he’d be more amusing than this.

MollyRen (@MollyRen)
12 years ago

What would happen if professio0nal victim-feminists actually eradicated inequalities though?

They’d all be out of a job…

Tom, you know there’s other stuff to life besides feminism, right? Like making the perfect omelet. Or reading all the science fiction. Or learning to dance. Or weaving a rug. Or…

felixBC
felixBC
12 years ago

I have to say Tom is much limper at arguing that I thought he’d be. Disappointing.

jumbofish
12 years ago

Only prostitutes can eradicate prostitution (by putting price down to zero)

Ok? why should they? What is wrong with prostitutes? (Obviously prostitution is not the best job in the world but you give no reason to why you think it should be illegal. Its more like PROSTITUTE BAD BECAUSE I SAY SO AND BECAUSE SELLING YOURSELF IS WRONG which is no argument at all)

Shadow
Shadow
12 years ago

Only chefs can eradicate culinary art (by bringing the price of sammiches down to zero)

What would happen if professional I-need-money-chefs actually cooked for free though?

They’d be out of a job!

Snowy
Snowy
12 years ago

Only prostitutes can eradicate prostitution (by putting price down to zero)

Yes but why should they try to eradicate their job? You still haven’t told us what is inherently wrong with sex work.

Holly Pervocracy
12 years ago

Only prostitutes can eradicate prostitution (by putting price down to zero)

So the only way for me to not be a whore is if I sleep with any man who wants me?

…I feel like I heard this same argument at a frat party in 2003.

What would happen if professio0nal victim-feminists actually eradicated inequalities though?

I think someone bringing a lawsuit because hard chairs hurt his tender man-bum shouldn’t throw around the phrase “professional victim” quite so pejoratively.

Anyway, my job would be in healthcare, like it already is. Feminism is something I do for free because I believe in it.

Snowy
Snowy
12 years ago

oops ninja’d

jumbofish
12 years ago

Wait I misread him I thought he meant prostitutes should just stop doing what they do not that they should sleep with anyone who asks. XDXDXD

Kyrie
Kyrie
12 years ago

Why is Tom under the impression that we all want to get rid if prostitution, especially at the cost of basically legalizing rape?

sarahejones
12 years ago

Tom, you should come south of the Thames some time. We at Goldsmiths would be more than happy to correct your glaring ignorance regarding feminist theory.

Falconer
12 years ago

Mr. Martin, I’m sorry, I can’t take your argument about the chairs seriously because it’s based in claiming that women have bigger butts than men.

Find some argument that isn’t fat-shaming, please.

As for “women owe men things,” a whole lot of people here have eviscerated that line despite the fact that this isn’t an activism or feminism 101 blog.

So now I will proceed to ignore you:

Folks, I really love the band Cake and I think it’s primarily because they have a trumpet in their lineup. I adore any pop/rock song with orchestral instruments in it.

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