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.
Hellkell, congratulations on having all your hair. You could do with a personality transplant is my main point.
40% of hairloss sufferers are women. For all those women effected by hairloss, go to the Women’s Hairloss Project, and for men go to thebaldtruth. The latest news is, a surgeon, Dr Wesley, has invented a device to suck individual hair follicles from any part of the body out backwards through the subcutaneous tissue using keyhole surgery – so without leaving microscopic scars associated with standard follicular unit extraction, apart from the keyhole entry point.
For all those effected by Hellkell, you should tell her to drop the physical insults. This will involve crossing the picket line, and smashing the unholy alliance. Standing up for morality over in-group morality. Not being a bumhole for a minute.
Also, I’m a pretty cranky feminist, but even i don’t walk around on the street using the jargon, because people won’t have a fucking clue what I’m on about. It’s the same reason I don’t use tons of multi, trans, or hell, comic book lingo until I know someone better.
Plus, I made my husband laugh with jokes about his penis. TRULY I AM GOLD-DIGGER EXTRAORDINAIRE MWAHAHAHAHA! *lightning*
Kittehserf,
Some women just told us they were feminists, then proceeded to either
a) … set a fabulous example for all civilization-loving stand up citizens to adhere to.
or
b) … make massive doughnuts of themselves on a three camera shoot.
All the women involved thought gold-digging ‘is a thing’ – because when asked if they were gold-diggers, not one of them said “What is a gold-digger?” or “Define your terms.” They (mostly) just denied it to the max.
Even women with level 2 English knew what a gold-digger is – but manboobztitutes don’t seem to know. Fascinating.
Sorry to any regulars who are affected by Tom Martin and his receding personality.
Hellkell, the “receding personality” line was one I wrote, on this blog, to describe someone picking on me for being bald, on this blog, about a year ago. Your stealing my jokes you fuckwit, and then forgetting where you stole it from.
Aww, thanks. 🙂
Hellkell, thanks for shifting him back to amusing territory. Truly he can be played like a piano.
Any time, Katz. He doesn’t get it, does he?
Our very own wind-up chew toy.
Tom’s personality isn’t receding. That would imply he had a personality to begin with.
Hey, Tommyrot? Hellkell’s liked here. Y’know, liked? The way individuals get on together and enjoy each other’s company? You would’t know about that, would you, Mr Alien? However much hellkell swears and insults trolls – and you’re sub-troll level – she’s a decent person. You can be as mealy-mouthed as you like, Mr Twit Who Dursn’t Write Arsehole, but what comes from you is sewage. You’re human dregs, Tommyboy, because you’re full of hate for more than half the world’s people. Fuck, you even hate children – taking the side of child rapists makes that crystal clear.
You’re utterly contemptible, and that you come here looking for ego-stroking is laughable.
… make massive doughnuts
Ooh!
of themselves on a three camera shoot.
Aw.
Kitteh’s: Let’s not forget Tommyboy’s ugly, racist, utterly contemptible looks-snarking on Muslim women lately.
Tommyboy–I can’t possibly get lower then you, shitstain.
Yup, I was thinking of his “inbreeding” comment when I wrote that.
Tommy’s what happens when bottom-feeders get diarrhoea.
And still, not one of you has chastised Hellkell for making disparaging remarks based on an opponent’s incurable medical condition in a debate.
Baldness is considered a condition or disease, in that stem-cells stop functioning properly, baldness associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer and heart disease, and a decreased chance of life success due to decreased aesthetics, and decreased trust from people viewing baldness towards the bald person – no shorter life expectancy overall (apart from baldness-related suicides),
Baldness-shaming is like creep-shaming. Something feminism has yet to grow up on and stamp out.
Come on women, for fuck’s sake grow up and show some moral fibre.
This place is like a Nazi era clip joint.
David Futrelle?
Hey, how come I can never make him do what I want? I’ve been asking for his joke-funniness algorithm for ages.
I’ll post further comments on this website only after David Futrelle has chastises Hellkell for her ongoing insults of my male pattern baldness. 60% of men will lose hair in their life, and it is not acceptable to disparage them for it when they have no control over the process.
David Futrelle?
It’s ‘cos you’re not an ALPHA MALE with ALPHA MALE HYPNOTIC POWERS.
Tho’ I’m not sure they’d work on Alpha Tommy Poo Head anyway. Ya gotta have a brain to be hypnotised, as the Dog once observed.
I’ve been asking Tom to explain why sex work or “gold digging” are bad things since forever but he hasn’t been very forthcoming for me either. We aren’t very good at using our wiles, I think.
I love how Tom thinks that women responding in a positive way to a man who listed his job as “men’s right activist” means “women actually like us! they really really like us!” rather than “most women have no idea wtf an MRA is”.
Much as he thinks “nobody asked him what a gold-digger is” means “everyone agrees with his definition.”
He’s also started recycling his insults.
(His attempting to insult anyone else on the basis of their personality being offputting is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on manboobz.)
Because he’s pissed off at the idea of paying a woman for anything, ever? If he thinks women should be volunteering as Page 3 ‘girls’ I wouldn’t mind betting he thinks they should be volunteering as sex workers too (at least for him).
If I remember correctly, he once gave a ten point list of reasons why prostitution was bad, then said that we should legalize it. I may be able to find it if I dig around…
I wouldn’t mind betting Tom’s one of those men on the “don’t go there” lists some sex workers have. He’s the living definition of cheap and nasty.
I think Tom’s real purpose here (and everywhere else he comments) could be summarized as follows.
1. Pay attention to mmmmeeeee!!!!!
2. I believe that women are all whores because they only ever agree to talk to me or have sex with me if I offer them money. This means that there’s something wrong with both women and society, not that my looks and personality are about as appealing as a dung heap.
Oh, and I forgot the most important point.
3. Give me money.