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.
Talacaris — how’re your statistics? Want to run some correlations on binary data? Mostly silly stuff like whether people who’re cats in a David suit are more likely to be female whore penguins. It isn’t really needed or anything, but I thought it’d be funny and I am so fucking deep in the religion data >.<
Yes Argenti, I expect there will be a reasonably high percentage of people who refuse to sign a release form, but that’s okay – we’ll have their footage, and the data, and will get actresses to realistically enact their performances (including whilst refusing to sign the release form – it might be the funniest bit.)
This fuckin guy. On the topic of humor: you could basically write an hilarious comedy script about a feckless crusading MRA dope (tiltin’ at wimminmils) and just lift his persona, writing and theories without any tweaks or exaggerations. Few would believe it was based on an actual self-alleged Serious Individual. Women Laughing in Droves at Tom Martin.
(I’ve actually had an MRA parody film in the back of my head for a while and will probably never write it, but that would be some funny shit. A whole group of them in some suburban town thinking they’re the incipient civil-rights movement of the age. Throw in every lovable-buffoon actor from the Apatow brosphere. One of em’s gotta look like Fidelbogen, aka MRA Snape.)
Has he elaborated here about his theory regarding ingesting semen and being funny? Applied solely to women, of course. That was in those YouTube comments I think. And yeah, I’m about to go take the test!
Women are already plenty funny, bro. Wit varies with the individual. Just give it up and focus on something of worth and lasting purpose Your whole load will lighten…without even having to have anyone ingest it. And a protip: someone not-so-clever can’t “help” others become more clever and witty. Patronizing doesn’t begin to cover this one.
PS my vibe says hi!
Tom, please please pleeeeeease tell me about your gold-diggerometer! C’mon, you have it all figured out already; just spill!
Wasn’t Tom Martin banned?
RE: Argenti
Talacaris? But isn’t he the Little Troll That Couldn’t?
So, HM, when you said you were going to get your vibrator out whilst laughing in my direction.. what was the thinking there? Let me guess, some kind of fantasy female supremacist victory wank? Were you imagining that for every orgasm you had, the joke was on me, or that in all seriousness, you were on me? I would at least like to know.
@Tulgey: He’s been given a reprieve for this thread since it’s specifically about him.
Tugley — he’s got permission to post in this thread, on topic.
LBT — yes, because apparently his ability to not be a fuck up is predicated on people assuming better of him. And it’s not like I offered him the serious data 🙂
(Some one save me from the serious data, I seem to have somehow gotten the headers on the second religion section misaligned and am now trying to sort out what the FUCK I did)
Ah, that makes sense. I also thought it was odd that he’s “Tom Martin fan (Tom Martin)” but I guess it makes sense that he’s his biggest fan.
Oh, I see. I got the widgets out of order on the second page of the religion chunk and copied the headers from the first one. Well, at least I only borked the headers and not the data!
Katz, are you Jackson Katz by any chance? (It would totally make sense if you were).
Yes, the gold-diggerometer graphics are not my department, but I imagine a simple line going along the screen, going up and down according to the players’ gold-digging moves, versus a humour level line going along the screen, similarly going up and down, so if my hypothesis is correct, we’d expect to see the gold-digging peaking when the humour levels are crashing and vice versa.
LBT, Tulgey Logger, everybody… Despite it being technically impossible to “troll” an article written about you, the 33% who voted for me as manboobz troll of the year 2012 anyway deserve a very special mention. You called someone a troll. Congratulations.
Magic shop, getting no releases, and a free DVD? Tom, this is shaping up to be a failure of epic proportions.
I’m not sure what’s going on in your head that lets you think you can pull this off, but you should seek help.
Every time Tom starts banging on about his latest “project” I feel like I’ve just been cornered by a drunk double glazing salesman.
Oh dear gods, I’m going back to sorting people’s gods. Tom utter lack of ethics is painful. Tom, it’s called informed consent, research pretty much invented it (might’ve actually been medicine, but in any case, YOU FAIL AT IT)
Gutbusters.org, when I whip out the vibrator I tend to be thinking “Multiple orgasms! Women like me have it MADE in the sack.”
Hellkell said,
“I’m not sure what’s going on in your head that lets you think you can pull this off, but you should seek help.”
I am seeking help Hellkell – the help wanted ads are a dead giveaway) – and I’m seeking help from you specifically, hellkell. Dig deep. Yes you can!
Casandra said: “I feel like I’ve just been cornered by a drunk double glazing salesman.”
Cassandra, you have been cornered by a drunk double-glazing salesman, call the police and file a report.
ArgentiAertheri, I will be getting informed consent. The participants will be told beforehand that they will be signing a release form at the end if they’re okay with it being used, and then at the end, they will be thoroughly debriefed, then asked to sign a release form – and we will be filming the whole process to insure that they don’t later claim they signed it under duress or false pretense.
We will be explaining the context in which they will be shown, and we will be appealing to their sense of enlightenment, that the greater good will come from their performances being seen, so that people can realize that although gold-digging might be the norm, it is bad for a woman’s personality.
– plus a free DVD.
And DUH of course a gold-digging hypergamous whore like me wouldn’t be fantasizing about you, as I only go after men with that sweet lawsuit cash.
HM said:
“when I whip out the vibrator I tend to be thinking “Multiple orgasms! Women like me have it MADE in the sack.”
Yes, HM, made in China.
HM said,
“And DUH of course a gold-digging hypergamous whore like me wouldn’t be fantasizing about you, as I only go after men with that sweet lawsuit cash.”
And now we’re getting into the territory of what women say they like versus what their vaginas say they like. I’ve seen a meta analysis of vaginal and penile plethysmograph research showing that what women say they like concurs something like 25% with what their vaginas say they like, whilst with men there is something like 75% concordance.
I predict women, including the hypergamous whores, will say they are sexually aroused by money, but that their vaginas will show the opposite – but that’s another, much more expensive and complicated documentary.
Band name!
No, no, no, I’m not asking about graphics, I’m asking about measurement! You’re assigning them a score and then using it as an objective metric for calculating statistical results. How are you going to calculate this?
You’ve told us a million times that being a whore is a lifestyle and that you can be one without saying or thinking you’re one. What if she’s a whore but doesn’t answer the survey questions that way?
The film crew all hold up score cards? It’s measured by how outraged Tom feels by the woman’s answers?
Jackson Galaxy would be a closer guess.
katz-
Gold-diggerism is self obvious, you know it when you see it.
There will be a penguin acting as control, and the more similarities between woman and penguin will be observed, the higher the gold-diggerism.