The other day we took a look at some of the more reprehensible opinions of Tom Martin, one of the UK’s most prominent Men’s Rights Activists and a man who evidently believes that child prostitutes are taking the easy way out to avoid having to get real jobs. He returned with even worse stuff, which I highlighted in my previous post.
Happily for all of us, not all of Martin’s views are this reprehensible. Many are merely ridiculous. So, today, let’s look at the Lighter Side of Tom Martin, as evidenced by some of his recent comments here on Man Boobz.
Martin apparently spent last Sunday working on a video project which involved him buttonholing passers-by on the streets of London and asking them questions in order to “prove” his various crackpot theories about gender. Here’s how he explained one aspect of his video research:
After shooting my video experiment tomorrow to discover who is more sexist on the street, women or women, I will be shooting another short, investigating if there is a correlation between unfunny women and prostitution ethic. I believe women could be as funny as men on average if they tried, but instead, invest in whoring strategies. I have a reliable street experiment to investigate this hypothesis also …
If I can establish that women can be as funny as men (in a zero prostitution environment), then this video experiment will be released in a news piece, and used as a springboard to pre-sell the feature-length documentary it will form a part of, on a related topic.
Good luck with that!
Martin also took on the contentious (to him) subject of male baldness, a topic of intense interest to him, due to certain factors with regard to gender and misandry … er, long story short, he’s bald. Sorry, balding.
After one commenter here suggested that Martin’s ambition was to become a sort of “Ann Coulter … with less hair and more swearing,” he took umbrage – not at the comparison to Coulter but at the bit about hair.
Well Cassandra, there are five new baldness treatments in the pipeline, but no drugs for treating a receding personality, so what are you going to do?
In a followup comment, the man whose favorite word in the English language is “whore,” used as an insult, declared we were being a bunch of evil meanies for even mentioning the whole (lack of) hair thing:
Cassandra, thanks to your receding personality (for which there is already a cure – renunciation therapy), I have decided for my filmed experiment tomorrow to also measure the degree to which each sex is prepared to make physical insults about the other sex.
Even if you specifically were fat for instance, and it was all your own fault because you refuse to get a job, I would never mention it in a debate with you. I debated an obese woman once. She ordered a pizza whilst we were still on stage, but I did not refer to it at the time, because of the most basic standards of decorum.
This I believe was an attempt at a joke.
How many manboobzers are prepared now to concur that Cassandra was being a douche by picking on an involuntary physiological characteristic of a debating opponent? And then encouraging others to do the same?
Of course, in Martin’s mind, mocking women as fat whores is totally cool, because:
Fatness is a choice, ladies, and so is being a whore. Going bald (currently) is not, due to poor efficacy of available treatments, including transplants. That will change, if Aderans, Histogen, Replicel, Allergen and Tsuji-Lab among others have anything to do with it. All you need to do in the meantime is shut the fuck up until they sort it out. The apparent acceptability of attacking the bald though, is a great example of the lack of equality men have. People do not generally attack or humiliate women who are going bald – but when it’s a man…
Uh, yeah, that’s why virtually every bald or balding woman wears a hat or a wig, while bald or balding men just comb it over or shave it all off.
Evidently Martin feels that even a mention of his lack of hair is some kind of hate crime. Here, prominent Bald Rights Activist Larry David tries to convince authorities to investigate a similar hate crime against him.
Note to Martin: Larry David’s show, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is fictional.
(Note: Tom Martin has confirmed that this is indeed him posting comments here on Man Boobz by sending an email from the account associated with his website Sexismbusters.org. Also, he’s retweeted quotes from his comments here. Contact him via his web site if you are skeptical.)
Can you imagine how horrible the world would be if Tom was in charge? The Hunger Games, Handmaid’s Tale, The Book of Eli, and Mad Max all rolled into one shitty world, with Tom sitting at the top of the heap surrounded by girl slaves. No thanks.
Good Lord, Pecunium, you truly are the most pretentious douchebag I’ve ever seen. I don’t hate you; I’m just kind of slack-jawed reading your overblown pseudo-intellectual posts on an Internet message board.
A hint: Being someone who has a life and other responsibilities (I am an entrepreneur, boyfriend, student and businessman), I don’t pore over my posts for hours on end in order to show off my knowledge of linguistics or irrelevant trivia from Wikipedia. I post quickly and efficiently. I get my point across. More than I can say for you.
you really have no idea how long-winded you are, do you?
Yes, you certainly do, if your point is always to prove what an asshat you are. Still ignoring my post about “ignoring men’s pain?”
(I was formerly posting as Molly McGee)
Actually, lil’ Tommy, both men an women in Japan volunteered to go in and clean up after Fukashima. 200 people in total. All of them very brave and very generous to have volunteered. So. Just curious…. what’s it like being wrong all the time?
Hey, at least he’s keeping all his various identities straight. For now.
Btw Steele. Even assuming urban profession did mean someone working in/for a business at any level, urban professional still =/= businessMAN. Assuming that definition it would mean businessperson. But no, no way you are a misogynist. You just happened to totally forget about women being in the business world.
Tom… you should have worked up to the pedophilia. I understand, it just sort of happened, and you lost yourself in the moment, and it came out.
And the rush, the thrill of heated vitriol being poured on you… the incidental insults (such as the passing comment about Ann Coulter having more hair than you did), and the flush of controversy. You don’t want to lose it, but how can you top the predatory seven year olds taking advantage of those innocent pedophiles.
You can’t just whip out some over the top, madcap nonsense and expect it to work. It needs to be a holistic growth from other bit of stupidity. You were on a roll, but to get another one, you have to lay the groundwork.
You had some promise, the build up could have grown out of the vast swathes of women you can accuse of being insufficiently recompensatory for the benefits they derive from the centuries of MANual labor which preceded the present. Then given them a small bit of credit for taking care of the men in their lives; but you know the vast infrastructure of the past still hasn’t had enough in the way of admitting how much they owe men (those mammoth didn’t hunt themselves), and so the next, “logical” step {after the public renunciation} would be, as in the past women who were widowed might enter a convent, they should volunteer to do works projects.
From their, as you get resistance you can start the foaming at the mouth, and the drunken ramblings (whilst explaining you will be filming your next expose on the evils of grasping women, and how they have been selecting trees for the density of the lumber, just to make men uncomfortable) and you could have done it.
But no, you got greedy, showed all your cards at once. It’s a pity. You could have been a contender, but it’s looking as if, for sheer perseverance NWO is once again going to be crowned Troll of the Year.
Steele: A hint: Being someone who has a life and other responsibilities (I am an entrepreneur, boyfriend, student and businessman), I don’t pore over my posts for hours on end in order to show off my knowledge of linguistics or irrelevant trivia from Wikipedia. I post quickly and efficiently. I get my point across. More than I can say for you.
As I said, it’s not pretense. 1: I don’t spend hours. I’m practiced at this. Writing (as with any other skill) is something that gets easier with practice.
Today I have, made chicken stock, worked on rearranging our living quarters, to accomodate the new furnishings we got last weekend, gone shopping, read some of a novel, and a bit of non-fiction, corresponded with my father, pondered the frames which are for sale at the art supply in town, trimmed some bonsai, watered the garden, watched some videos, fried some basil for topping the stir-fry I’m making for supper, done some laundry, chatted with the new girl at the coffee shop (she’s interesting, attractive, and speaks Russian, so I have three incentives to spend more time there) talked with someone about drunk driving laws; and the Singularity, and found the time to mock you, mock Tom, mock NWO, do some (interesting) research on the Pulitzers for non-news, toss in some barbs at Elam, Peter-Andrew NOLAN©, discuss linguistics, and write this.
What I am, is efficient.
Oh… btw, I’ve not checked wikipedia for anything in days. There isn’t anything wrong with wikipedia, but I’m actually pretty well read, and tolerably well educated. Moreover, I know how to do research, and google has made finding primary sources a lot easier.
If I were a better typist I’d be a bit faster.
Varpole: I post quickly and efficiently. I get my point across.
Spending days to do it… I know, I went and looked at your posting history, remember?
What I am, is efficient.
And what you are not, apparently, is employed.
Yes, CNN did dig out a token female pensioner they’d found who also volunteered to clean up Fukushima – I’m sure most of the 200 will be nearly all men – but Fukashima is small-scale, compared to the clean up operation required after a full scale nuclear strike, or anthrax attack. We’re not talking volunteer time, we’re talking conscription – and while all the media did pieces on how it makes sense to send old people – none had the honesty to say that it actually makes more sense to send old women (as they’re infertile).
@Pecunium, lurker here, posting for, i think, the first or second time, just to note that I am extremely impressed!
Shouldn’t they send you in, Tom, because no one wants you to breed?
we get it tom. you want us to say you old women to die. blah blah blah. this one is boring. come up with something new.
also stop fucking posting here so you can finish your videos. seriously, it’s not like you have school to worry about, so when are we gonna get to see those?
Does Tom want his own mother cleaning up toxic sludge, too? Maybe Tom’s father bought her a house once, therefore she is also a wh*re.
Tom, it’s not shocking anymore.
He’s so desperate. It’s kind of sad. Tom, get to work on your videos; there’s a good boy.
Picture if you will this scene. A group of Scottish children are on a school trip some time in the 70s, performing a rousing rendition of “You Cannae Shove Your Granny Off The Bus”*, when one child springs to his feet, a look of outrage on his face. “Yes you can!” he proclaims. “That w%$re isn’t even fertile any more!”
And thus an MRA activist is born.
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VCWROijdwM
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Hey Steele? That linguistics post was directed at me, and I rather enjoyed it.
Pecunium — Unfortunately, try as he might, my best-friend has been unable to get any Russian to actually stick in my brain, so most of that went straight over my head. Nonetheless you’re correct about Cicero’s word order, and perhaps I’d have enjoyed it more under different circumstances (hard to get much done at all with a drunk asshole making demands, let alone translate Cicero competently).
The faux self-mockery in Steele’s voice was hilarious btw, his insults would be worth it if he could pull of anything that well written…oh right, that’s misandry, because he can’t write because some teacher said he can’t, because he’s a man, thus he can’t write because he’s a man…having just spent an hour packing up art, I kind of have to disagree on that one. (It’s hilarious, I wouldn’t have thought I’d produced much of anything, but trying to pack it all? That pile might weigh more than I do!)
Tom — that whole screed of “reasons”? I have but one reply — send in the robots!
Tom Martin’s next stop why make Soylent Green out of people in general, when we can make it entirely out of dead women? Or why even wait until they’re dead… why are you all yawning?
Seriously, you already hit rock bottom with your child rape apologism. There is no further you can sink. I’d say pack your things and go home, but I doubt you often leave.
Steele: What I am is semi-retired. I have a pension and a day job, but it’s part-time. Why? Because I’ve earned the ability to not need more than that.
So I put in about 20 hours a week, i.e. about three days. The rest of the time I am a house-husband for a family of three.
I’m in my forties.
Sucks to be me, Right?