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.
Now, now, Tom Martin fan, I didn’t call Tom Martin (you) a troll. You should really rein in that dishonest streak, Tom Martin fan (Tom Martin).
I suggest publicly renouncing all dishonesty whatsoever! That should do the trick.
Can you do it? Yes you can! Come on, Tom Martin fan! Just do it! Say it with me:
“I’m a Tom Martin fan, Tom Martin, and I hereby renounce all dishonesty whatsoever, despite my frequent lying ways.”
Come on, Tom (#1 Tom Martin fan), you can do it!
Katz, the gold-digging level will be instantly apparent by the game-players’ specific degree of answer, and the humour levels will be judged by a panel. If I could afford a twisty nob, hooked up to a gizmo, the comedy judging panel could watch the performance twisting one way or the other as they watch. A cheaper way would be for them to scribble scores down as they watch.
Did anyone see CNN’s coverage of the vice presidential speeches at the 2008 US election – when Sarah Palin came out with soundbites high on gimmickry but low on content, a lot of the women twiddled their knobs in approval – causing the female vote approval line to rise – that sort of thing, except half of the comedy judging panel will be men, “You betcha!”
I will bare all that in mind Tulgey Logger. Good work.
I’m so confused by everything about this. I might just get it off the pirate bay(if its that popular) and watch it for shits and giggles.
Questions asked include “Would you like a herring?” and “Look out, a leopard seal!”
RE: Tom Martin
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.
Flatter me all you like, mister, but that doesn’t change your loss!
Freakin’ Steele bastard, ruining my troll…
Auggziliary, save up the $3 or whatever. I just watched a film on youtube pay per view last night for the first time, called This is not a Film (aptly titled). It cost me £2.50 for a 24 hour opportunity to watch it as many times as I like – whilst the same film in the DVD shop was £7 – so it’s fair enough. I get the feeling this documentary is going to be one to repeat watch, due to the participants’ performances, and the performances of the actresses playing the participants who don’t give permission etc.
I don’t know how much of that £2.50 youtube or google keep. With vimeo on demand it’s only 10% – so its going to be cheap, and easier than downloading some dodgy files from a dodgy site – and then feeling shit about yourself for the rest of the day.
Does David Futrelle allow comments condoning lawbreaking?
I just got an email from The Young Turks, trying to hook me up for their pay per view show – I honestly don’t think it will survive, because they’re a pair of twats! It’s bullyingly left, banal, safe, politically correct, factually incorrect dross – and lefties don’t like paying for things. We will see.
“Tilting at wimminmills” inspired me.
Don Quiwhoreti !
LBT is very disappointed in you, Tom! I’m guessing you’re used to that, though.
Now, now, Cassandra, you know that’s not fair. How could Tom be expected to concentrate when he was suffering chronic buttock pain from being forced to sit on misandric hard chairs?
What, the uni where he did his undergrad had hard chairs too? Does this whorish conspiracy stretch all the way back to the nursery?
katz-
But if the alleged gold-digger female answers with a herring pun, the gold-digger-o-meter might explode in confusion. That’s why Tom is hiring a quantum mechanician-zoologist from Oxford on his crew.
But of course! Just look at these misandric kindergarten chairs.
I’m just amused at the constantly-growing list of things Tom’s not in charge of. Today we’ve added graphics and the goddamn name of the film.
It gets even worse in primary school.
katz – pretty soon it’ll turn out that the rest of his *cough* crew *cough* have decided that this is a really dud project, and they’ll do something completely different for fun and profit (both conspicuously lacking in this one).
Then Tom will have a whole lot more to complain about – misandry in the film industry!!!11!eleventy!
RE: CassandraSays
Nothing shall ever soothe my disappointment. My boner will be forever sad because of goddamned Steele. *shakes fists to the sky* DAMN YOU MRAL!
“…easier than downloading some dodgy files from a dodgy site – and then feeling shit about yourself for the rest of the day.”
Yeah. No. Do you know how many shitty movies I can go through in a month?! (LBT — you’ll either enjoy [rec] or enjoy MST’ing it. First two were pretty good, third was…not. Zombies, pretty much, except they aren’t zombies and it’s pretty low budget so it’s biohazard crew traps actors in apt building with zombies. Spanish but subtitled.)
If a woman weighs more than a penguin then she’s made of gold, which means…
SHE’S A GOLD-DIGGER! BURN HER! BURN THE GOLD-DIGGER!
Mind you, I doubt Tom Martin can afford the scales.
Myoo – I LOLd. 🙂
Tommy: Cassandra, my undergraduate degree is in film-making and autodidacticism (a word I looked up all by myself) – so everything should be absolutely fine, but if there is a wannabe researcher/co-presenter who can actually crunch stats, and spare me from reading the Psychology A Level book I’ve got on my shelf, send them this way.
Oh dude…. No.
It’s not the crunching which needs the expert, but the framing. Bad data is bad data, and no amount of, “Crunching” can fix it.
You’re gonna need money to pay someone to figure out how to get decent operational definitions, etc. Good luck with that.
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.)
Um… I suspect that anything which might be traceable back to them is something which could lead to a libel suit (and British Libel Laws are not friendly… better to sue a Uni and lose than to be engaged in a libel suit).
It involves putting them through the wringer, then getting them to sign a release form at the other end… 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,
This would invalidate the survey. You have to get consent (informed consent) in advance. Like I said, you need help at the front end, not someone aiding you at the back end.
I have to admit, I LOLed at a degree in “autodidacticism”.
The irony is rich in this one.
Tom, your obsession with HM’s throwaway joke about masturbating is getting fucking creepy.
He, at least he’s finally gotten over his fixation with what we think of his hairline.
Yet another giveaway in the language – “putting them through the wringer”. Nooo, Tommy’s not hostile to women at all.