This won’t be news to a lot of you — I’m a little late getting to it — but our old pal Tom Martin, the repulsive British MRA celebrity, is actually going ahead with the somewhat baffling video “women and comedy” project he was babbling about in the comments here many months ago, when he was still allowed to comment here. Well, “actually going ahead with it” this August if he can get anyone else to agree to work for him for free minimum wage.
The documentary project is called “Laughing with Women” and, Martin explains, it will “investigat[e] if gold-digging impairs women’s joke-making ability, and if, when women reject gold-digging in all its forms, they can become instantly funnier.”
In case that didn’t make sense to you — don’t worry, that’s a completely natural reaction — Tom explains his, er, “logic” a bit further in a jobs listing he’s posted in hopes of finding a crew, which has already gotten a good deal of ridicule over at PZ Myers’ and on at least one comedy website.
Why are women, on average, slightly less funny than men? Does gold-digging in particular impede women’s joke-making ability? When women publicly reject gold-digging, do they become as funny, or even funnier than men?
In his numerous visits to Man Boobz, Martin expounded at length on the topic of gold-digging women, generally referring to them by his preferred term, the shorter and blunter “whores.” Martin has previously estimated that roughly 97% of women fit this description, and has suggested that female penguins are also whores. Frankly, once he gets going on the topic, it’s hard to shut him up, which is partly why he’s no longer welcome in the comments here.
In any case, this odd hypothesis will be tested, Martin says, with a “radical, and revealing street-based social experiment.”
Still puzzled? Mike Booth, the British video comedian behind SomeGreyBloke and Dan Cardamon, has managed to tease out a few more details from Martin (posting here as sexismBusters):
Martin is confident that his proposed video will blow the lid off this whole “women and gold-digging and comedy, no really, they’re connected” thing:
If the radical, and revealing street-based social experiment at the centre of our documentary proves gold-digging does make women less funny (as pre-production research suggests) then our findings will make headlines around the world, our film’s two minute teaser trailer attached to all those news and blog articles (Update: this advert alone has already been blogged and tweeted about by outraged PC types).
The full documentary will be shot to a broadcast-quality standard and format, giving mainstream television companies worldwide the opportunity to purchase broadcasting rights (if they’re feeling brave enough) whilst we maintain a virtually guaranteed revenue stream from our already established hardcore of supporters and fans within the non PC gender equality field around the world, who, along with everyone else, will be able to enjoy Laughing with Women on newly launched pay-per-view channel, Vimeo on Demand (VoD) – where VoD itself takes a very modest 10% cut. The documentary has the potential to be translated into several languages – gold-digging a familiar if hidden story in every country, until now.
In other words, it sounds like some sort of video gold mine.
So I’d recommend that all gold-digging women out there try to get in on the ground floor of this Tom Martin dude.
Oh, and speaking of Dan Cardamon, here’s the faux MRA’s take on the project:
CORRECTION: This post originally stated that Martin wouldnt’ be paying his crew, but he says he will be paying them minimum wage, so I’ve corrected the relevant passage above.
EDITED TO ADD: Tom has shown up in the comments, and I’m letting his comments through (for now at least), so if you have any questions for him, feel free to head to the comments to address him directly.
Hi, de-lurking here (I’ve commented about twice before so not really technically a newcomer). I know that we’re on the topic of Tom Martin and gold-digging, which made my day by how ridiculous of an idea it is by the way. I apologize if I’m derailing too badly, but I was browsing Amazon for cheap books for my kindle since I had a couple of bucks left on a giftcard. I came across a hilariously cheap erotic novel I swear all MRAs get their information on men and women from:
“This collection represents a broad range of characters and situations. From amazons and elf-maidens to meter maids and frustrated wives… The women are all sexy, submissive–and secretly longing to be seeded by alpha male studs. The men themselves are gladiators and gangsters and jocks and lords… All just delicious but oh so virile”.
After I stopped laughing for a half hour, especially at the alpha male studs part, I realized how bizarrely similar that summary was to a real MRA’s line of thinking. Anyways, again sorry for de-railing /back to lurking now
Frankly it would just be many pictures of my cats and herself modelling my newest line of TARDIS knitwear!
I would pay cash money for a documentary about the making of Tom Martin’s documentary.
Kristen, welcome! (or re-welcome)
LOL that sounds like an MRA’s attempt to write a Gor novel. Positively scary.
Theda Bara – and pics of herself and kitties modelling TARDIS knitwear is a problem how? 😉
I’m about to run, so I don’t have time to go through all of Tom’s mess of a last post but um… Manboobzer C and D were the same person. And what happened to B?
A researcher and a presenter are not the same thing. Why are you using this term interchangeably? Unless a “researcher” to you is just someone who can articulate your assdata elegantly.
THIS is the type of comedy we lady-brainers are incapable of. Curse you, gold-digging, preventing me from this level of wit!
How are you getting the women to approach you? Are you and your crew just going to stand around outside and hope someone asks what you’re doing? And hello racism, how are you?
Make an anagram from “penguin”.
@ Kristen:
Hi, delurk more often plz!
That description sounds hilarious. I mean, if that’s what some people get off on, well sure, but it’s generally not a great idea to draw very far-reaching conclusions about real life from porn. I mean, I just came home from work where I had been working together with quite an attractive co-worker, but no sexytimes happened! What gives? Surely porn hasn’t lied to me?
Personally, I’m of the opinion that most MRAs have formed their opinions of women based on the sitcom Married with Children: Lazy, money-grabbing, bonbon-eating housewife? Check. Hypocritical straw feminist next door? Check. Hypergamous Slutty McSlutwhores everywhere? Double-check.
Of course, they fail to see that Al Bundy is no innocent, suffering beta, but a scheming, misogynistic, self-centered asshole, whose misery is mostly due to some form of karmic punishment. Kinda like the average MRA, I suppose.
And by the way, the article on mensactivism, giving an overview and links to the online reaction to my documentary, has not been showing up on a google word search, at all, for the last 2 days, as if it’s been removed or blocked – but the article is still there on the site. Do manboobzers think it’s right for all these internet service providers blocking men’s rights sites for being hate sites?
Here is the article google apparently doesn’t want you to see:
http://news.mensactivism.org/node/21643
Apparently, “I mean” a lot too.
@ Kristen, honestly anything with Fabio on the cover, bless him, mra handbook. And they think they are so original. D’aww.
@Kittehs’ Just a friendly warning and feel free to call me Theda or T, save the typing for something more important.
@ Tom Martin fan (Tom Martin) Do you supply the tinfoil hats or do we have to fashion our own? I’m clumsy and worried.
@Kristen
Hello and welcome 😀 No need to lurk if you don’t want to, we don’t bite. 😛
And sorry if I”ve already welcomed you before? I have a really bad name memory, I kinda need to see them repeated abunch to stick.
@augochlorella
Questioning man-logic? MYSYNDRY!
Wow that’s what I get for skimming Tom’s comments XD That is too…strange. Don’t worry, Tom, I, too, eat books. Cooking books!
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…was my joke at least as bad as his?
Feckless wannabe economically inactive househusbands, seeking to permanently scrounge off their overtime-working spouses is a problem, but nothing compared to the wannabe feckless housewife massive.
And at last we have a definition of “whore”…sorry, I mean “gold-digger.” It means “housewife.”
Funny housewives:
Phyllis Diller
Joan Rivers
Roseanne Barr
Erma Bombeck
Shirley Jackson
Funny strippers:
Diablo Cody
Marilyn Monroe
Funny weather girls:
Gilda Radner
Funny art history M.A.s:
Sarah Vowell
Funny maritime museum employees:
Kate Beaton
Funny theater critics:
Dorothy Parker
Funny chicken farmers:
Betty MacDonald
Funny rock band managers:
Tig Notaro
Funny NSA agents:
Wanda Sykes
@Theda – cool, I didn’t know if you wanted the magnificent Theda Bara’s name typed out or not. 🙂
Couldn’t we knit tinfoil hats? I mean, knitting … would sparkly yarns do the trick?
If the biggest gold-diggers are hiding under tablecloths, does that mean they’re dogs and cats? They’re the only ones who do that in my family, and that’s only during thunderstorms.
Dorothy Parker’s theater criticism is quite hilarious. It’s really my favorite writing of hers.
OOOH i have so much sparkly yarn. I think Theda would be cool with the diminutive on here.
Is being succinct against his religion? Perhaps editing is evidence of whoredom.
@kittehs
Could I have a tinfoil hat like Gynostar’s?
A sparkly yarn tinfoil hat would be the best.
Especially if it had kitty ears.
Gynostar’s one would be really easy to knit!
Can we back up to whenever Tom got compared to pond life? Because that’s an insult to pond life.
And, amazingly, I second one of his points — no comparing MRAs to animals, for the same reason, it’s an insult to animals. Maybe compare them to the window I jammed my finger in hard enough I had a moment of debating if I should scream for someone to come free me? (At least the under nail bruise isn’t that big and I got the cactī repotted without injuring myself on them?)
Is Wanda Sykes responsible for hiding stories about Tom Martin from Tom Martin’s biggest fan (Tom Martin)?
“easy” and “knit” do not belong in the same sentence on a feminist website. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________
Wait… what?
Holy shit! How did I not know that?
And please, Madaline Kahn. Just… Madaline Kahn.
I compare them to the tiny bit of dirt left behind after you sweep your floor. You swish and swish but still there’s just that little bit of grime that refuses the brush.