Tom Martin’s “anti-male discrimination” case against the London School of Economics dismissed; he responds by calling his critics “whores.”
Hard wooden chairs: Enemy of men?
Tom Martin, a former gender studies student at the London School of Economics, recently became a minor celebrity amongst Men’s Rights activists and other angry men when he sued his alma mater for alleged sexism against men.
He’s now had his case thrown out of court. Let’s go to the Camden New Journal for details:
Tom Martin, 39, who lives in Covent Garden, claimed he suffered “anti-male discrimination” while studying for a master’s degree in gender, media and culture at the world-famous university in Holborn.
Representing himself at his application for a trial at the Central London County Court on Tuesday, Mr Martin complained of a lack of men-only sessions in the university’s gym and the preponderance of posters in the corridors advertising services for women without the presence of similar materials geared towards men.
Mr Martin, who describes himself as a feminist, said “hard” chairs in the library were uncomfortable for men and that a “male blaming culture” was evident in course materials, which “ignored men’s issues” and focused on wrongs done by them.
Damn those misandrist chairs and their man-hating hardness!
The judge didn’t buy it, saying Martin’s case had essentially no chance of success. He threw out the case and ordered Martin to pay LSE’s legal costs.
Martin, welcome to reality.
On Twitter, Martin responded to the news by calling his critics “whores.” One of many examples:
But I was really discriminated against, you whores!
And, yes, his Twitter handle is indeed Sexismbusters.org.
EDITED TO ADD: Actual headline today on What Men are Saying About Women:
EDITED AGAIN TO ADD: Tom Martin has replied to this post in the comments. Some highlights:
My legal complaint did NOT involve a complaint about the seating. You have been misled by the press – The Times and the West End Extra/Camden New Journal both mysteriously got it wrong.
One year prior to joining the university, when visiting its library, I did complain, that the seating being hard created a greater disadvantage for men than for women, as men have considerably smaller weight-bearing buttock pads than women, and men are heavier too – so for men, on average heavier than women, have more weight bearing down onto a pad which is approximately four times smaller than women’s on average – according to a BBC documentary on the subject.
He then details his attempts to fight this grave injustice. Also, there’s this:
[S]everal comments here are confusing ‘whore’ with ‘slut’. A slut has sex freely, which I am all for. Freedom of association is the ultimate in humanity. A whore charges for sex. Even if a woman is a virgin, but is waiting for Mr Right to buy her something, she’s a whore.
It’s counter-intuitive, but a lot of professional feminists are whores. They expect the government and men to do them special favours. They make up stories to convince men and government to believe that we all owe women something.
But really, if someone were keeping a tab, then…
Women owe men five years pension.
Women owe men some National Service.
Women owe men some inventions.
Women owe men positive discrimination in university curricula.
Women owe men some child access.
It’s women’s round at the bar too.
For the whole thing, see here.
For more charming quotes from Tom, see this post on the blog Butterflies and Wheels.
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Posted on March 16, 2012, in actual activism, antifeminism, I'm totally being sarcastic, irony alert, misandry, misogyny, MRA, oppressed men, twitter, Uncategorized, whores. Bookmark the permalink. 1,558 Comments.
Oh, and I think I’ve just successfully invented something which make playing x much freer, easier, and sexier, for women, and men, whilst dancing.The first prototype cost
£100, took 1 hour to fit, works, and does not require batteries!
Since I’ve been on Manboobz I’ve had two inventions. One works, but stinks. One is on the nose. What have manboobzers tried to do for us lately?
- I’d like to see a few more stories about ambitious manboobzers, inventing exciting things and inspiring other people identifying as feminists, throughout the nation, to ask themselves, “can we, invent a thing, which make playing x much freer, easier, and sexier, for women, and men, whilst dancing?”
- and then show me the proof.
List of things women have invented…
The disposable nappy.
The windscreen wiper.
The er.. . the other windscreen wiper.
How many of you accept the argument that women are innately crap at inventing things?
What are you going to invent to change that perception?
Even if they could technically do anything they wanted to (which they quite obviously can’t), while they are forced to wear restrictive clothing rather than clothing appropriate to the activity, they are severely curtailed in what they are able to do. Having to have someone accompany them everywhere they go does too, because they have to rely on someone else’s willingness to go with them. Theoretical freedom is not the same as actual freedom.
And yet you wax lyrical about their amazing lifestyles. How they have it so much better than the men there. That they are the privileged class. That housework is better than a regular job (because having a regular job is akin to being a slave while housework is always pleasant and rewarding). The Tommy doth protest too much.
Not to mention that even the ‘symbolic’ requirement to get a man’s permission because he’s a man and you’re a woman is wrong (never mind that it’s far from merely symbolic). But of course Tommyrot wouldn’t admit that.
Kim,
All mod con kitchens these days.
In the 3rd world, it really annoys me to see the footage of women sat cross-legged at a bowl, pounding whatever they have into food with a small caber, up and down all day like it’s the wailing wall. You never see a man doing that shit. Can’t they just eat the whole grain?
The point is, even she loves her kitchen, because it’s quite nice, and doesn’t involve putting on shoes. Any job you can do in your dressing gown is not a difficult job (Burr, 2007).
I have mod cons in my kitchen too. Housework still sucks.
Also, get back to me when you successfully make a loaf of bread without flour.
I don’t mind housework, but I DO mind when other people make a mess of what I’ve just cleaned, or expect me to pick up after them.
(Adds cooking to the long list of things that Tom doesn’t understand.)
@pillowinhell
I mind when people complain about the mess I made. We can never be housemates
@CassandraSays
I’m guessing in TomWorld, Cooking = buying it from a shop.
Why can’t stupid 3rd world women just go buy bread from a shop like a real person, hey? amirite Tom?
Tom, why should we do anything to impress you or because you want us to? It’s cute you think we care what you think of us.
GPOY
…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. (James Joyce)
It makes about as much sense, and gives you more satisfaction from trying to figure out what it says.
Tom, I’m noticing a distinct reluctance on your part to deny that you support the Taliban.
If you don’t support the Taliban, can you please confirm that for us? You just have to say “I don’t support the Taliban.”
The longer you refuse to say so, the more damning the conclusion becomes.
Could we go so far as to demand he renounce the Taliban in all its forms?
We could Falconer.
I demand that Tom renounce the word “whore” in all its forms.
Tom, we don’t spend our days inventing things because no one pays us to invent things; as you have previously established, doing unpaid labor is prostitution, and we have all already renounced prostitution in all its forms. You whore.
I demand that Tom renounce his fuckery in all its forms and apologize to the world for bothering it with the aforementioned fuckery.
If you take away his fuckery, YOU LEAVE TOM WITH NOTHING!!! THAT’S MISANDRY!!!