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.
BTW, on Tommy’s throwaway about ‘they all accepted that gold-digging is a thing.’
Yeah, actually, I accept that gold-digging is a concept that exists in the world.
I think it is an anti-woman trope that exists because of women’s economic subjugation. (seriously, you know about women and the right to own property?)
Plus, I think Tommy-boy has an overly broad interpretation of it. (ergo, all women are gold-diggers)
I have never really denied that there are women who seek financial security through sex and relationships. Indeed, for women not to do that when there’s still a pay gap would be unexplainable. When women are disadvantaged economically for being women, then, yeah, even strategies-of-various-ethical-flavors will be explored in response.
(and is that such a bad thing? Ethically? Hmmm… still leaning on the ‘systemic economic disenfranchising is worse’ button)
Which is a lot of words and a lot of thinking, when I could just shorten it down and say fuck you, Tom.
So fuck you, Tom.
So, is that it? 60 women answering the same questions in slightly different ways. How dull.
Have pity on your viewers and at least make the documentary short.
Demonstrably false, if you’d just scroll up a bit. I realize that would require actually reading what’s been posted, but I have faith in your abilities.
Nah, I’m pretty sure she’s doing that on purpose, because it’s hilarious how mad it makes you.
LOL, Godwin’d
Male pattern baldness an incurable medical condition? Bit melodramatic, that.
C’mon, Katz, this is serious! Next you’ll be telling me it’s not ableist to make fun of my acne.
“I’ll post further comments on this website only after David Futrelle has chastises Hellkell” . . .
I’m guessing this is not the way to make it top priority on David’s to-do list.
Oh no, is Tom Martin leaving?
Will he take his documentary with him?
What, is David Hellkell’s dad? Next is he going to ground her and not give her any dessert?
Furr/fishinati Fotobombing FTW!
A Nazi era clip joint?
What, does the barbershop quartet sing Deutschland Uber Alles?
He actually thinks he can get things from us by “threatening” to go away.
I chuckled.
Well, he IS banned everywhere on this site already, except this one thread.
But really, I’ve seen enough of Tom Martin to know that he can’t bear to be quiet for long. He’ll be back. He always comes back.
Like dandruff.
Only louder. And more obsessed with whores.
Uh, spank me?
OHGODICAN’TGUFFAWINMYCUBE, I can’t breathe, this is hilarious.
In the immortal words of Clerks, “you’ll be missed.”
If I had known this would make him go away, I’d have done it last year.
HE SHOWED UP AND NOBODY TOLD ME ??!!
I was just thinking, man this place has been dead the last few days. TURNS OUT THE PARTY’S IN THE BASEMENT.
::sulks like he just lost a lawsuit against LSE::
Does this mean all we have to do is shout HEY BALDY at Tom and he’ll piss off?
Hand me my razor.
Imo get me sum welfare.
@ Falconer
I just laughed into my burger because of you. That was a unique experience you gave me. Thank you.
@augochlorella: You’re very welcome.
Whadda we want? Gummint-supplied wigs for everyone!
David is Hellkell’s dad. David is also Hellkell’s mom and David is Hellkell. David is you. David is me. David is EVERYONE and ALL THE CATS.
Tom, I don’t tell off MRAs for calling me fat, so why should I tell off Hellkell for calling you bald?
But David, hellkell’s a WOMAN! Wimmenz aren’t allowed to body shame
misogynists’men’sbaldnesstotally incurable awful medical conditions!!!1eleventy!!!David, bald jokes SHOULD be unacceptable because male pattern baldness is 95% genetic, and made worse by 5% environmental factors which remain largely unknown – but include such heinous behaviors as choosing to live in a city rather than the countryside.
On the question of your fatness, I would say this
David Futrelle is fat, but UNDERSTAND… with David, it’s the glands. Thyroid, lymphs, pituitary. He’ll eat plates and plates of virtually any internal organ that guy. Gizzards, cartilage, shoes…
We understand that obesity is largely self-inflicted, but even then, if we’re having an argument and someone attempts to derail by pointing to someone’s obesity, then it’s still a cheap shot and totally wrong.
Make fun of someone’s poor management of baldness, like getting a bad wig, or having a ridiculous combover – but understand, good undetectable wigs are £10,000 a year to maintain and shit to live under, the drugs to combat baldness generally don’t work and can have serious side effects, like permanent impotence, and 9 out of 10 people who go for a hair transplant consultation are turned away as unsuitable candidates.
So whatshername making derailing baldist comments in lieu of an argument is not okay, as I’ve already explained.
Lot’s of people do it, two people yesterday made fun of my baldness (on the street) but just like ginger jokes for instance, it’s low class, and not okay you fat fucks.