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.
emilygoddess, I’m so happy to see that Hyperbole and a Half’s author is doing better! I know she’s been having a really hard time, I can sympathize. Pretty much everything in her Depression Pt. 2 was like she was writing my life.
The real gold diggers are the MRA and MGTOWs. You can see their paypal links on their youtube channels, right next to their large sub base. Paul Elam, girlwriteswhat, johntheother, RockingMrE. People are cashing in on the anti-feminist craze. This is how you get upvotes and subs. Rant against women’s rights and women themselves and you will gain a very large idiotic crowd of drunken sexist and misogynist to listen to your videos. Then they will go to women supportive sites with their multiple sock accounts and start vomiting profanity all over the place.
Where are the videos from the MRM that ridicules this reckless behavior? It is as if they want these kids to harass women, that way they donate more of the ego boasting drug right back at those with paypals. It is like a madness of hate has gripped a throng of boys and those with bank accounts are using them. They don’t care about them, they just want their money.
Here’s a little update on the documentary:
The subject matter is having the desired impact, but the name of the project, Laughing with Women, is less than sensational.
£200 to the person who comes up with a better name for the film. The media coverage has been largely negative, focusing on the gold-digging rather than on the transformative potential for women in the documentary to go from humourless gold-diggers to super hilarious – so a short, funny, snappy, controversial, optimistic title is what we’re looking for. Just post your idea here, then that way it will be time and date coded, so if we get two people coming up with the same suggestions, we’ll know who was first.
There are no wrong suggestions. They might lead to something better, so just throw suggestions for the film’s name out there.
It might help to come up with a positive word for a woman who is expressly not a gold-digger then include that in the title.
Do your worst.
£200 to the person who comes up with a better name for the film.
Well, the best I can think of is one you probably shan’t like: “I’m an idiot who was laughed out of Court and fined £36,000, tell me a joke to ease my pain”.
Truth in advertising is so rarely catchy.
Then again, you might have a future in comedy, anyone who can write this without irony has a talent:
The logical failures in that as a premise are legion: you have built an ungodly confirmation bias into the project.
In short, you can’t do what you promise, because the basic premise is built of shit.
How about “Dour Whores and Delightful Independents”?
Or whatever a woman who isn’t a whore according to Tom Martin is called. Unicorn?
Puffins?
A documentary by a guy with a scrawny ass and idiocy in legal matters?
Hard chairs are misandrist, are you?
Do you like salad? (Anyone who gets that one gets a
cookiesalad)Pecunium, for the title, aim for five syllables or less:
Here’s a few suggestions to do better than:
Comedy Gold Dig
Funnier Women
Women and Funny
Update: Women will be estimating, between zero and 100%, how much of a gold-digger they are. Nobody’s going to be telling them their score on the day (although we will be able to see their score on screen as they take part in the varying stages of the experiment).
So, towards the end, when they make their estimation of their gold-digging score, in response to an apparently random question, we can compare it to their actual score, to see how much denial they are in. and to see whether denial of gold-digging itself is bad for further joke-making.
Serious question, do you have even the foggiest idea now to determine if the results are more than random chance?
And no, that was not an offer to do your math.
How about “Tom Martin, Fuckwit”? Five syllables and it meets truth in advertising standards.
Oh and guess what! My husband was enthusing about some type of wood he’s just found, and is planning to make MISANDRIST HARD CHAIRS from it.
You fail again, O man who was too stupid to bring a cushion to sit on.
This is like haiku written by someone who can’t stay awake.
An old silent pond zzz
Autumn moonlight zzz
Over the wintry zzz
Also, why do trolls always feel the need to explain things to pecunium? Pecunium does not need things explained to him.
Great suggestion. Now we need an even better word than ‘unicorn’ for a woman who has rejected prostitution in all its forms. Er…
“Dour whores and Delightful Independents” has my enthusiastic vote. Of course as a gay lady my opinion doesn’t matter. We just spend our time clutching our tattered joke-books and recent bank statements, utterly confused as to which is driving our personalities and vaginas forward. Am I so utterly bamboozled by gals gorgeous diamond earrings that I am rendered mute? Obviously.
@ Tom Martin fan (Tom Martin) you are a disgrace to academics. Which is obvious since you are desperately trolling here for validation. Wimmenz be distracted by the shiny loveliness? Fuck right off.
TRUE FACT: I don’t give a good goddamn if Tom Martin thinks I’m funny. I would love some sort of explanation as to why I should consider amusing Tom Martin a valuable trait that I should work to cultivate.
Kittehserf (and anyone else who missed the update), My complaint about hard chairs in LSE’s library pre-dated my attendance on the gender studies course. The library had received many complaints about the hard chairs, but simply ignored them, until I cleverly used the Gender Equality Duty Act and the Equality and Human Rights Commission to back up my complaint, the library subsequently changing all its 1000 to 1200 seats, from hard, to padded. Anyone who would like to make fun of me for this is making fun of pure gender equality activism – and doesn’t deserve to call themselves a feminist anymore.
Here is a video of LSE students singing the praises of the newly comfy library
You’ll notice some hard chairs at the computers, which have now also been changed.
“Tom Martin: Utter Shitwit.”
Tommy: Pecunium, for the title, aim for five syllables or less:
I’m a tosser
Men Rule, Females Drool
Fuck! I’m stupid.
Pay My Bills
Are you a whore?
Bitches Ain’t Shit
Can you top this? (please keep your fly buttoned when asking the question).
Whores: The Phantom Menace
Whores II (“Just when you thought it was safe to leave your basement.”)
@Theda:
“Wimmenz be distracted by the shiny loveliness? Fuck right off.”
Well … if the shiny loveliness is
1) kitties
2 kings
3) both of the above
I will confess to being distracted.
Whoa, is this going to be a film series to rival Pube Terror?
@Kittehs’ if someone waved a kitten in front of my face, yes, I would be utterly undone. That is the price we pay for our Misandry. Sigh.
Come on ladies, for £200, it’s time to start feeling it. Fake it until you make it,,,
Revenge of the Whores
Oh, like Tom’s got any money with which to pay anyone. Mofo, you’re in debt to the tune of 36 large, why should we do a damn thing for you?
Raiders of the Lost Whores
Attack of the 50ft. Whore
Easy Whores