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Seriously, Tom, your research is poorly structured and utterly uninteresting. A more interesting research project would be to assess each subject’s adherence to feminism (via questionnaire or similar) and then assess degree of sexism or misandry as a function of the strength of belief in feminist ideas. This would answer the question: is misandry the result of feminism (as the MRM claims) or is feminism the antidote to misandry (as feminists claim)?
Unfortunately, you appear to be using age as a proxy for the type of feminism women subscribe to. This is just sloppy research, as all you’ve done is show that older women in your survey were less likely to say misandric things than younger woman. Also, did you do any sort of multi-variate regression analysis, or are these just straight percentages? What’s your n, R squared, and p for this data set?
Trying to explain why a YouTube video of Tom Markin shoving a camera at random passerby and asking them “Jay Leno’s Jaywalking”-type questions isn’t “research” is like trying to explain why an armadillo isn’t a fruit. If we got into the details we’d be here all day.
(For starters: people suddenly asked to describe an entire gender with one word are pretty much always going to say something awkward or jokey. This does not mean that this is literally their most core belief about gender.)
Yeah, it’s SCIENCE if you say SCIENCE loud enough, right? At least that’s how Tom seems to think you make it scientific.
(…and looking up, I see I got ninjaed on that observation… ‘cargo cult science’…oooo, perceptive…)
Cliff:
To add on that, people suddenly asked to describe men when they have Tom Martin standing in front of them are less likely to come up with positive attributes.
I’m still not sure how this is supposed to net him £37,000.
I understand stealing underpants can be quite profitable.
like trying to explain why an armadillo isn’t a fruit – Cliff
I hate when you want to make an attempt to be witty and then Google image search lets you down. 🙁 All I could find was one crappy small fruit-shaped-like-an-armadillo picture.
..Maybe I should stop trying to be witty?
Actual scholars already did that. They found that feminists were less likely to have hostile beliefs towards men.
http://intl-pwq.sagepub.com/content/33/2/216.abstract
@David Futrelle
” That’s not really a standard Man Boobz insult as much as it is a description of many MRAs/MGTOWers/PUA-wannabes and “incels” who spend much of their time complaining that they can’t get dates (and that this is some sort of injustice).”
The show you were on was almost totally about internet misogyny proving worldwide societal misogyny. Since, “Can’t get a date.” is the standard insult for any who dares disagree with a woman online, this is clear evidence of worldwide societal misandry perpetrated by women.
If feminism is all about equality, and proof of societal misogyny is from negative internet comments about women, than negative internet comments about men must be proof of societal misandry. Do you agree?
Is anyone else seeing “hooer” and having their mind insert the missing “v” for “hoover”?
Which is sorta but not quite the thing Tom is trying to make it be. Except my vacuum cleaner never insists I pay for dinner or buy it attachments to prove my love.
@Ugh. Well, there you are. That’s pretty much what I expected.
Anyone tempted to confuse hooers and hoovers might be well advised to read this.
the larger point is that tom never even filmed the video, so none of this really happened
To add on that, people suddenly asked to describe men when they have Tom Martin standing in front of them are less likely to come up with positive attributes.
How many women said “bald?”
I see Tom is avoiding moderation by using hooer instead of the w-word!
What an asshooer.
@Shaenon
My mum calls her “The Trollop With The Scallops”
Motion: I vote we now refer to Mikey/Varpole/Steele as SEMI-STEELE!
Who’s with me!
And TOM–whoa, rotten lousy reading comprehension there. No wonder you couldn’t handle graduate work, or suceed at your case.
@Myoo: people suddenly asked to describe men when they have Tom Martin standing in front of them are less likely to come up with positive attributes.
I shall have to send you a bill for drycleaning of monitor soaked in Coke Zero.
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Lower-middle management white collar. Wooh! Let me guess, you supervise a call center? You’re a McDonald’s manager?
I thought you said you were an entrepreneur? If an entrepreneur is one who merely “considers entrepreneurial prospects”, then gawddamn! that means I’m an entrepreneur too! Me and my brother have made a few inquiries into ideas like programming a SolidWorks material plugin or self-publishing a board game. I guess we’re Galtian supermen like Mr. Steele here! (Hey he even has a proper Ayn Rand character name to represent his Captain of Industry status!)
I think what you mean is “I owe even the mediocre amount of success I have mostly to my gender and race opening me doors that wouldn’t have been available otherwise, and if I’d had been born black or a woman I would be in a much worse situation even if I’d had about twice as much drive as I now have”.
twice zero is zero fwiw
What’s with all these “semi-” qualifications?
Surely “semi-wealthy” means “not wealthy” by definition?
Ditto “semi-attractive”, “semi-intelligent” and “semi-self-aware”.
I see Varpole has gone from “successful young urban professional” to, “semi-wealthy supervisor at a successful business.”
He’s no longer an active entrepreneur, but considering becoming one.
Grad school seems to have been abandoned.
it means he’s not as wealthy, intelligent, or attractive as he would be if women werent all out to get him
Yeah, he’s been moving pretty quick. What was it, a week ago he was in grad school? Then he graduated and was moving fast! Now he’s stuck in a management position. What comes next week? Early retirement?
It’s not exactly fruitfly territory, but I do feel sorry for him. In his short, short lifetime he’s spent the percentage equivalent of ninety-eight of my human years on this website.
Sounds terrible.
“receding personality”
This NEVER STOPS BEING FUNNY. NEVER EVER EVER.
God, I hope not – he’ll have even more time on his hands.