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. 1,497 Comments.
Seriously, what’s next? A long-winded treatise about how kicking puppies is the right thing to do, because whores?
Wow. That is a seriously horrifying statement.
Yeah, nothing like being shot to make you realize you’re not a victim…?
Wait, let me make sure I read that correctly.
Mister Hard Chairs Are Misandry You Are All Whores just suggested a fifteen year old girl who survived an assassination attempt is a shill for the BBC’s nefarious schemes.
A fifteen year old girl was shot in the head for daring to speak up about girls being kept out of school- and let that be a lesson to her! But the chairs in the library were a serious affront to Martin’s delicate ass.
Just seeing his name in the Recent Comments ticker makes me queasy and sick to my stomach.
Malala is a victim of sex segregation and religion.
The great thing about ending sex segregation is that it kills the religion too.
It would be nice to see Malala publicly reject sex segregation, and the religion foisted onto her as well.
I think she’ll be a bit too politically correct to do that though (and a bit too pally with fems encouraging the sex seg).
I saw some stats that show worldwide, 78% of girls and 81% of boys are in school, so a genuine inequality of opportunity for girls, I assume - but no, this is an inequality of outcome.
There are inequalities of opportunity for girls and boys to go to school no doubt - like conscription for the boys and Taliban for the girls - but you never hear an interview of a girl saying she doesn’t want to go to school because she plans to be a scrubber. Maybe some peasant rural girls don’t want to go to school as much as boys, given the girls’ options of sitting in the mud hut and waiting for the highest bidder to feather their nests. Boys do not have the same option of being a whore for life like the girls do. Just saying.
But I think something we overlook is that in all rural communities, from third to first world, the proportion of economically inactive housewhores is much higher than in the cities.
Economic activity stats make it look like relatively high proportions of women in whatever country are working, but some orgs cook the stats by only surveying women in cities. I saw a stat in passing from Mexico for instance, claiming only 1.5% of rural Mexican women are/were economically active.
Anyway, so many manboobzers’ comments about me miss the point and misrepresent what I say, so I am going to start making shit up too.
David Futrelle eats children.
Dude, all we are doing is reading the words you type. There is no misrepresenting your positions on 7 year old child prostitutes or your current stupid statements about a brave young girl. You just suck at being a good person in general.
Hard chairs and quoting you verbatim is misandry.
So just to get this straight, you support the Taliban, right, Tom?
Given that 43% of agricultural workers in developing countries are women, I feel pretty safe in asserting that Tom’s figure of 1.5% of women in rural Mexico are “economically active” is, er, rectally derived. (That is, pulled from his ass.)
You gotta admit, he’s very good at figuring out how everything is the fault of underage whore.
Feminists are in charge of the school system in Afghanistan? Who knew!
But of course, I’m probably misrepresenting his point somehow by assuming his written word is what he actually intends to say or somesuch bullshit.
In addition to participating in crop production, Mexican women also engage in off-farm activities (from handicrafts to empanadas) to diversify their families’ livelihoods.
This is of course in addition to providing the lion’s share of chlid care, eldercare, and care for the sick. Probably none of this counts as “economically active” to Tom, since most of it is unpaid — but why aren’t men pulling their weight?
Arrgh, italics were meant to end after “very” and “whore” should be plural.
You might wonder what “chlid care” is. Also known as “child care.”
Hey Tom, I asked you a question instead of just assuming I was sure what you meant, but you ignored me. Instead of bleating about being misunderstood, answer the damn question.
Which do you believe is more valuable, ‘things’ or freedom and autonomy?
Look lackwit, a case of mistaken identity does not equal false rape accusation.
As for the Taliban nonsense, fuck you with a cactus in Sheriff Joe’ jail.
Tom’s teeny butt is so sore
that the pain has him down on the floor.
Shoot a child in the head?
Aw, shaddup, she’s not dead,
and Tom’s pain’s more important, you whores!
Tom saw a statistic in passing,
About women whose wages weren’t massing.
Turns out women’s work
Is undercounted, you jerk!
So Tom’s numbers are derived by grab assing.
Criminy! That d00d is painfully ignorant about life, the universe, and everything.
I hope someone had a Steelbutthurt bingo game going during this. There must have been a winner in all that waffle.
So, just to be clear, Tom hates male rape victims just as much as he hates female rape victims, and victims of child prostitution?
And thinks that child prostitutes aren’t actually being raped, apparently.
Since Tommy Boy won’t answer me, I’m going to go ahead and assume he is jealous of the sweet deal (he thinks) women in Saudi Arabia have going.
So, feel free anyone, to lock him up in your basement and use him as free labour. You’ll never have to let him out as long as you feed him and give him presents occasionally. He’ll feel so happy and privileged never having to do anything. (Remember though, his labour only counts as work if you pay him, so make sure you never pay him.)
Also, if we’re going for Saudi conditions, remind him that you are entitled to have sex with him (since presumably you will be getting married - otherwise living alone together would be indecent). Obviously none of you are going to want to actually have sex with him, what with the sympathy for pedophiles and the calling all women whores and all, but be sure to remind him that you could force him to have sex with you if you wanted to. And also that you could legally have put him in this situation when he was 12 if his mother had signed off on it.
And then remind him how lucky he is to be in such a position and how he must have chosen it himself because he was too lazy to get a job.
“Privileged classes—never educated;
instead, kept rich, fat, and sedated
while the oxen and mule
make decisions and rule.”
Thus sang Tom as he masturbated.
@ Tom Martin
I’m curious, Tom. Are you interested in women in terms of sexual relationships or romantic partnerships? Or are you a MGHOW? Or are you uninterested in women?
Tom is a troll… He can’t be serious. Even in the ludicrous world of the MRM he stands out as being ridiculous.
Just because no one else has mentioned it, that decree Tom’s pointing to as proof that the Taliban would love to educate girls, so long as they’re segregated from the boys? That was made 16 years ago. Women have missed their entire education under it.