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.
True, but I don’t know about less creepy. Asking to see the tits of people who have told you repeatedly to go away is pretty fucking up there on the creep-o-meter.
Since this guy is back in this thread posting again, he has to answer about that study he invoked while completely misrepresenting and misunderstanding it. He flounced off and didn’t address it…welcome back, sir! Now you get to explain yourself. In detail! We brought up many, many points for you to address. Maybe start with the first ten. Also, post a link to this brainscan fuckstudy of yours, because it does not appear to exist, Dr. Scientist.
Also, considering how ethically dodgy this film project sounds, it’s definitely a wonderful idea to be making defamatory comments about the participants in a public forum under your own name. Bravo.
I also don’t recall anyone trying to police me for making a joke about masturbating? I do recall this goofball Martin fellow bringing up said joke again and again and again in a way that made him look increasingly pitiful / like a giggling dork teenage virgin terrified of female sexuality. See also: this page, where he’s STILL bringing up the joke. But no one to my recollection tried to “police” me,” and there’s not a regular here who appears to be like that. I believe someone accused you (you being Dr. Scientist) of doing that..of trying to shame me for being a human female who masturbates. Whether or not that’s your motivation…how do you not see how pathetic this makes you look?
I will never understand how with all there is to experience and learn in this world a guy can become this fixated on othering human beings. Whoever said he ends up sounding like an alien is so correct. Especially with his conviction that this film will be revolutionary and important. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it get a lot of attention for being absurd, though.
Plus his racism, and his claim that pedophile rapists are the ones being exploited by child prostitutes. Yeah, Tommy’s a creep, even if some aspects of his creepery are LOLworthy.
Oh, yes, he definitely is creepy. It is just that my creep-ranking has several people in front of him (Mr. Al in front, if only because we were both in college during his reign of terror).
I recognize that this is subjective.
Boobies are nice, but…tits or gtfo! http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/3/24/1237914679599/Long-tailed-tits-001.jpg
Those are some cute tits!
HM,
You are my hero.
It only takes one person to break rank, and cross the floor – it’s like that scene in Jerry Maguire.
Are you willing to get your tits (and possibly flange also) out on manboobz for virtually immediate world peace? You know it makes complete sense sister!
Tommy: you’re a dimwit. I meant you had nothing in terms of any kind of stinging insults against us. Your toxoplasmosis rant was weak, and proves you’re a small, bitter man who hates to see people enjoying themselves.
And that’s the bald truth, dipshit.
I have more hobbies than cats. Creeper shaming is a lot of fun, for example. You know the best part? The creeper usually becomes indignant for being shamed! It’s funny as shit.
What color code is creep shaming again? Code Puce?
“Creeper shaming”? It’s a bit… creepy.
My toxoplasmosis comment is totally fair, as 90% of cat owners I’ve spoken to about toxoplasmosis have absolutely no idea what I’m on about.
Cats fuck with your brain. Some of you seem to acknowledge that here, by jokingly referring to cats’ dominance plan over you – but that is how it works.
Don’t you think it’s a bit creepy to desire to be chemically beholden to cats?
Stroke people.
Puce is good, I can go with puce, Hellkell.
“Don’t you think it’s a bit creepy to desire to be chemically beholden to cats?”
Did someone here say they’re chemically beholden to cats?
And holy shit, you take regulars’ jokes about cat domination seriously? Wow! That’s hilarious.
Hey, what about those of us beholden to creatures that we can’t share any diseases with? (Well, there’s one, and it’s a strain of TB, but it’s pretty much a dermatological annoyance in humans and rather obvious in fish [open ulcers? Put in gloves])
Tommy demonstrates fail again, in multiple areas at once!
1. He has no sense of humour.
2. He has no empathy, sympathy or any understanding of affection, whatever its form.
3. He falls into the cretinous binary of animal-haters that says if someone loves animals, they don’t love humans.
4. He says “stroke people” as if:
4a. it should be done randomly, without consent;
4b. “stroking” (ie. intimate touch) between regulars and their partners wasn’t already happening;
4c. suggesting it would get him any.
Not gonna happen, Mr Alien Creepster. If being a douchebag knocked someone off the “person” scale, you’d have fallen off long ago.
Shiraz,
Toxoplasmosis is a bacteria living in cats’ piss, which attracts rats and mice and birds, intoxicating them, so they actually become drunk and careless, dancing around the cat piss site, making it easy for the cat to catch and eat them.
Toxoplasmosis in humans, caught from cat litter trays or from being pissed on directly by the cat, causes humans’ behaviour to change – making the human behave in a similarly drunk slovenly manner, to be disorganised and vulnerable enough where they feel like they need a cat for company, thus, the cat gaining access to the human’s food.
Kittehserf,
1, You are not a prostitute.
2, Remember, you are not a prostitute – so stop siding with them.
Tom Martin, I DID put pictures of my breasticles up online for free, and I STILL wouldn’t give them to you.
Now tommy… as you may have noticed, we make jokes (see above, re boobies and tits). I can see where (as many are at your, considerable expense [but not so expensive as the joke you played on the LSE, ammitrite?, that was a knee-slapper]) I can see why you don’t enjoy them much.
But that’s a deficiency in you. A better person would see that the humor in them (when viewed from a dispassionate, purely critical remove). I recommend you show this thread to your production staff, and see what they have to say about it.
Tom, you’re a humorless git who’s just not that bright. Keep going, you just make yourself look worse.
Go stroke yourself and stop begging for tit pics.
Hrmn… I don’t have any cats. I do have orchids (just got a pair as a rescue…so the in house tally is up to seven. I have citrus, and olives and rosemary, and pomegranite, which all have to come in for the winter. The slaughter of the basil and the decapitations of the dill proceed apace.
I am teaching my partner, and her other partner, and one of her boyfriends (he comes over once a week) how to kill people with swords. We have friends (who fence rapier) who are going to come over for practice with us. I cook. I spin. I write. I sell things (not because I have to, but because I enjoy telling people about knives, and cookware, and telling them interesting things about popcorn).
I play videogames, and I take photos. I’ve got a published book. I ride motorcycles. I have lovers. I have ex-lovers who still make the time to call me, and I visit with them when we are in the same area.
Tell me again about how (because I used to live with cats), I am doomed to a life of dreary depressive not much of anything?
Tell me about it as you look at the massive revenue stream from your, “documentary” (how much did you pay the crew? Or have you managed to be a whore, and gotten them to do it for less than the going rate?), and think about how to hide the receipts from the Inland Revenue, so that LSE won’t get the money you owe them,
Tell me again how much my life sucks,and how fulfilled you are with yours.
Go ahead. Tell me.
I thought he was pretending to have no sense of humor as an excuse to make lame-ass jokes. Guess not?
No, he makes lame-ass jokes because of the damage caused to his posterior by the LSE reading room.
Oh. Well, now I know the truth.
LBT said,
Tom Martin, I DID put pictures of my breasticles up online for free, and I STILL wouldn’t give them to you.
And there, from LBT, we have the classic “shooting the messenger” move, where LBT agrees, that showing nudity for free is good, as I am arguing, but then says she’d never show it to me (even though I am the one bringing the argument with which she agrees).
I saw an interview with Matt O’Connor, who researched pressure groups for six months before launching Fathers 4 Justice, and the interviewer was saying he was winning the argument, but that he and his group had an image problem, and he politely said “with successful social movements, they ALWAYS shoot the messenger”.
You people are shooting your loads all over the place.
I’m the “worst human, 2012” to manboobzers, because my arguments are the best.