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. 1,620 Comments.
Beer is common attributed to women as an invention.
Disposable diapers, sewing machines, basket weaving, pottery and weaving. Knitting.
Well, Florence probably didn’t “invent” that, but certainly popularised it.
And I’d like to point out that beer and “civilization” happened within close proximity to each other.
Florence Nightingale did invent the pie chart, though.
“Civilization”* as a concept is closely tied to “agriculture”, in the development of which women were most definitely involved.
This is a stupid game that Tom wants to play in general, though.
*And yeah, all kinds of imperialistic ideas about nomadic and/or hunter/gatherer peoples going on with that concept, too.
@Unimaginative
I knew she was a bit of a graph pioneer, but I didn’t know that! Florence Nightingale is just generally a cool person, though.
Hearing this reminded me of being about 12 and being told to show up to my academically-gifted-extension class thingy as a scientific figure - I showed up as Tycho Brahe in a blanket-cape and Groucho Marx glasses sans-moustache painted to resemble copper and a drawn-on moustache, and my twin sister as Florence Nightingale in apron and headscarf with a lamp.
Pecunium, that is an impressive list of 25 things 25 clearly awesome women have invented.
And all other inventions…
Today, only 10% of patents are awarded to women (which is totally lame - lame as in deliberately shooting oneself in the foot lame).
I saw a study in the Observer a few years ago saying that women who believe the “glass ceiling” to be a real thing actually temper their ambitions and they earn less. The tone of the article was like “Doh! - these stupid women have been taking our victim-feminist stories literally.”
I am saying there are virtually no glass ceilings, women can be the greatest inventors, but will have to get their heads out of their asses and think about how they can contribute to make the world a better place, and only feminists are aloud to speak on women’s issues these days in the media typically, so it’s important to get the positive stories right.
Do women have equality of opportunity. No. I admit it. They have SUPREMACY of opportunity, what with positive discrimination to get more women into science and technology and every other field.
Part of this project involves sorting out the men’s equality issues, quickly, so compacted fecal matter like Douchetrail are all right for a laugh, and misogyny is generally bad, but there are some real problems with women’s general input to date, which should be lampooned you ditzy fucks. Don’t lose sight of the fact we can’t fly independently yet, (but all want to be able to), don’t have a cure for cancer etc, and someone has to sort that stuff out:
This video nails it, but you will have to pay attention to it until the end. Yes you can!
@ lowquacks: you and your twin sister are, without a doubt, the coolest 12-year-old people I’ve ever virtually met.
Something weird going on here. THIS video!
@Unimaginative
Thanks! Though obviously we’re not 12 any more. I do love dressing up still though, and we’ve had a few neat costumes between us since.
That entire class was just incredibly cool though.