It's no secret that Billingham and I used to be friends, of sorts. We were friends and allies online for a few years and we met in person. I believed that his motives were similar to mine and that we were on the same side.
Now I almost wish it *was* a secret because the man is a nightmare and I regret almost everything about my past association with him. We were both involved in the atheism/skepticism movement, such as it was, and I had thought that we were both committed to truth motivated by kindness, fairness and justice.
It turns out that Billingham is motivated only by the opportunity to bully and especially the opportunity to bully women. He feels very much at home in the gender identity extremism movement. He realised quite early, in about 2015, that this ideology gives license to bully while pretending to be progressive. He realised that lying comes without consequence if you're morally bankrupt and your goal is to hurt, rather than to achieve.
Beware of him. He's dangerous not because he has any particular skill, but because there is no depth he won't sink to and because no gain is too shallow for him to relish. Everything he says is a calculated but not particularly sophisticated lie. Everything he does, now, is to undermine truth and decency and to muddy the waters.
Block him. Mute him. Ignore him. Starve him of attention.
I'm sorry now that I ever had anything to do with him, he is poison.
He’s also going after LGB Alliance’s funding plug in provider, why is a straight man allowed to continuously attack, defame, and harass a lesbian led charity for LGB people?
"Billingham, as Sprout, also defended the Kiss My Genders art exhibition at the Hayward gallery, which was accompanied by a training session from Gendered Intelligence for teachers about how to introduce the work to young children. The exhibition contains imagery associated with BDSM, fetish and porn and includes a close up of an erect penis and video footage of a mock gang rape scene."
Scratch the surface...its always in there somewhere...sexual pervisions
Can we stop describing Maria Mac as 'a pensioner' please? IIRC she was 60 when the assault took place, so below state pension age. I get that describing someone using that word paints a picture to our advantage in those circumstances, but it seems demeaning and insulting to me. Maria Mac is a vibrant and active woman.
Oolon is an infamous character from Free Thought Blogs who evolved from an enemy of the blog's SJWs to their most devoted servant. Even they dont quite trust him and thus he works really hard to prove his credentials. He is sick and I could have told you that 10 years ago.
I vaguely remember "Oolon" from my days when I was active in the New Atheist movement. I left the New Atheist movement in disgust when "Elevatorgate" happened. Elevatorgate was a pre-GamerGate woman-hating warm up exercise.
Rebecca Watson of Skepchick went to an Atheist conference in Ireland and during a talk she gave, she alluded to women feeling uncomfortable when attending these conferences because some male attendees acted like sex pests. Later in the hotel's bar, she was talking with a group of conference attendees and generally hanging out. In the wee hours of the morning, she excused herself so she could go up to her room and get a few hours of sleep. Some guy, who had not made his presence known to her up to this point, followed her into the elevator and asked her to come to his room for coffee. Later, she made a video that she uploaded to Youtube about the conference. She briefly mentioned the incident and said, "Guys, don't do that." That was it. She didn't even name or describe the guy. She literally spent, at most, two minutes on this incident.
I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that the entire online atheist community exploded into an inferno of raging misogyny and anti-feminism. Entire message boards were devoted to smearing and harassing women and their allies in the New Atheist movement. There was doxxing, and threats, and trying to get people fired or thrown out of atheist communities from both sides. Eventually, people like PZ Myers and others at FreeThought Blogs (FTB), tried to create a new movement they called Atheism Plus (+). It was supposed be a movement of atheists who were focused on Social Justice and leftist interests. Of course it was maligned from the start and it's pretty much dead now.
This post about Billingham made me think back to those days as well as the destruction of the New Atheist movement. I remember when they created the Atheism Plus forum, almost immediately proto-TRAs swarmed in and started with their bullcrap. But that was the kind of leftist interest they courted so everyone celebrated it.
Pretty soon, the topics of championing secularism, fighting Creationism in American schools, and so on starting getting drowned out by grievances and the Oppression Olympics. You couldn't say "that's crazy," at some egregious display of quackery because "crazy" was offensive to people with mental illness. You couldn't say "that's stupid," because that was abelist. Threads devolved into shouting matches because someone typed "transwoman" instead of "trans woman" by accident. People were banned and shunned.
In the meantime, FTB was still going. One of FTB's regular blogger was the illustrious TIM Natalie Reed. Natalie is known for organizing to disrupt the L’Ecole Polytechnique Massacre 'Day of Remembrance' because it didn't center TIMs. Let that sink in - a woman-hating mass murderer killed 14 women because they were women. Reed, upset that the Day of Remembrance didn't center TIMs, organized other TRAs to protest and disrupt a solemn public memorial dedicated to the 14 women who were murdered. http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/transgender-activists-plan-protest-against-day-of-remembrance-for-women-murdered-in-the-lecole-polytechnique-massacre/
Another FTB blogger by the name of Ophelia Benson was run off FTB for being Gender Critical and is now vilified as a TERF.
I always considered myself a very left leaning person and I still am but I've withdrawn from most leftist spaces because of the toxicity.
I swear, the second TRAs join a group, you know that group will probably be dead within a year, two a most. Trans activism is parasitic. It attaches itself to a host and then proceeds to take all the host's vitality. I have been involved with pro-social community groups and watched them get destroyed when the TRAs show up. Oh, you want to organize a product drive for a domestic abuse shelter? How dare you! TRANS WOMEN ARE DYING! DIRECT YOUR RESOURCES TO THEM! Oh, you want to do a toy drive for foster kids at Christmas? How dare you! TRANS WOMEN ARE DYING! ad nauseum. Pretty soon, people stop showing up and participating. The host is now dead and the TRAs move on to another host and the process repeats all over again.
He is obviously Cluster B. A malignant NPD. He will never stop as it gets him off. He is completely empty and fills it with his loathing of women. His wife must either be brain washed or same as him. I wish we could find a way of making him pay.
Oolon is an infamous character from Free Thought Blogs who evolved from an enemy of the blog's SJWs to their most devoted servant. Even they dont quite trust him and thus he works really hard to prove his credentials. He is sick and I could have told you that 10 years ago.
You write: “It’s a mystery why he is so invested in silencing women in favour of abusive and dysfunctional incels.”
Since 2015 I have followed credible independent channels that report on prominent child abuse cases, both in the US and UK. The behaviour exhibited by this man matches perfectly some of the sabotage I witnessed, targeting those groups. Sometimes it’s a single person with sock accounts galore, and what would appear to be a mental health disorder. But they are always relentless and determined and bullet proof, and an appearance on BBC is not unheard of. Destruction of a persons life and reputation is the ultimate goal. It is too familiar a pattern for me to believe they are sole operators. Yes, they really might be but then you learn about the secret police infiltrators of the 1990’s in UK protest movements who used stolen identities from dead people, and you learn about digital orgs like the 77th Brigade. And the same kind of CIA connected operatives working it in the US. What I learned was the independent investigations of child abuse cases had to be absolutely turned upside down. Well meaning groups had to be seeded with doubt and hostility and hosts of any channel daring to report on the sacred subject were pelted with abuse and lies. Disinformation campaigns will forever stain anyone who uses their real name, much like they have done to Graham. Also, Qanon was an obvious psyop from the start, designed to create an offspring movement that could be easily led and then labeled as whacko etc in order to discredit all abuse research, forever cited by establishment hacks. (Big sigh, thanks for listening 😆)
It's no secret that Billingham and I used to be friends, of sorts. We were friends and allies online for a few years and we met in person. I believed that his motives were similar to mine and that we were on the same side.
Now I almost wish it *was* a secret because the man is a nightmare and I regret almost everything about my past association with him. We were both involved in the atheism/skepticism movement, such as it was, and I had thought that we were both committed to truth motivated by kindness, fairness and justice.
It turns out that Billingham is motivated only by the opportunity to bully and especially the opportunity to bully women. He feels very much at home in the gender identity extremism movement. He realised quite early, in about 2015, that this ideology gives license to bully while pretending to be progressive. He realised that lying comes without consequence if you're morally bankrupt and your goal is to hurt, rather than to achieve.
Beware of him. He's dangerous not because he has any particular skill, but because there is no depth he won't sink to and because no gain is too shallow for him to relish. Everything he says is a calculated but not particularly sophisticated lie. Everything he does, now, is to undermine truth and decency and to muddy the waters.
Block him. Mute him. Ignore him. Starve him of attention.
I'm sorry now that I ever had anything to do with him, he is poison.
this is also well-worth reading https://www.transgendertrend.com/gendered-intelligence-training-teachers-kiss-my-genders/
He’s also going after LGB Alliance’s funding plug in provider, why is a straight man allowed to continuously attack, defame, and harass a lesbian led charity for LGB people?
"Billingham, as Sprout, also defended the Kiss My Genders art exhibition at the Hayward gallery, which was accompanied by a training session from Gendered Intelligence for teachers about how to introduce the work to young children. The exhibition contains imagery associated with BDSM, fetish and porn and includes a close up of an erect penis and video footage of a mock gang rape scene."
Scratch the surface...its always in there somewhere...sexual pervisions
My God! Well I think I have worked out what motivates this bloke. Perhaps the authorities should investigate his hard drive. #QTpie
Thank you for the info on how to donate to Marion Millar! The person you highlight looks like the creepiest person ever . . .
I’ve just sent Marion a donation via PayPal. Please just be careful that her info doesn’t get out.
It's time to stop referring to these people as Trans Rights Activists.
They are Gender Evangelists.
We should also stop referring to ourselves as Gender Critical.
We are Gender Atheists.
Can we stop describing Maria Mac as 'a pensioner' please? IIRC she was 60 when the assault took place, so below state pension age. I get that describing someone using that word paints a picture to our advantage in those circumstances, but it seems demeaning and insulting to me. Maria Mac is a vibrant and active woman.
Oolon is an infamous character from Free Thought Blogs who evolved from an enemy of the blog's SJWs to their most devoted servant. Even they dont quite trust him and thus he works really hard to prove his credentials. He is sick and I could have told you that 10 years ago.
This is my first comment here. Hi everyone!
I vaguely remember "Oolon" from my days when I was active in the New Atheist movement. I left the New Atheist movement in disgust when "Elevatorgate" happened. Elevatorgate was a pre-GamerGate woman-hating warm up exercise.
Rebecca Watson of Skepchick went to an Atheist conference in Ireland and during a talk she gave, she alluded to women feeling uncomfortable when attending these conferences because some male attendees acted like sex pests. Later in the hotel's bar, she was talking with a group of conference attendees and generally hanging out. In the wee hours of the morning, she excused herself so she could go up to her room and get a few hours of sleep. Some guy, who had not made his presence known to her up to this point, followed her into the elevator and asked her to come to his room for coffee. Later, she made a video that she uploaded to Youtube about the conference. She briefly mentioned the incident and said, "Guys, don't do that." That was it. She didn't even name or describe the guy. She literally spent, at most, two minutes on this incident.
I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that the entire online atheist community exploded into an inferno of raging misogyny and anti-feminism. Entire message boards were devoted to smearing and harassing women and their allies in the New Atheist movement. There was doxxing, and threats, and trying to get people fired or thrown out of atheist communities from both sides. Eventually, people like PZ Myers and others at FreeThought Blogs (FTB), tried to create a new movement they called Atheism Plus (+). It was supposed be a movement of atheists who were focused on Social Justice and leftist interests. Of course it was maligned from the start and it's pretty much dead now.
This post about Billingham made me think back to those days as well as the destruction of the New Atheist movement. I remember when they created the Atheism Plus forum, almost immediately proto-TRAs swarmed in and started with their bullcrap. But that was the kind of leftist interest they courted so everyone celebrated it.
Pretty soon, the topics of championing secularism, fighting Creationism in American schools, and so on starting getting drowned out by grievances and the Oppression Olympics. You couldn't say "that's crazy," at some egregious display of quackery because "crazy" was offensive to people with mental illness. You couldn't say "that's stupid," because that was abelist. Threads devolved into shouting matches because someone typed "transwoman" instead of "trans woman" by accident. People were banned and shunned.
In the meantime, FTB was still going. One of FTB's regular blogger was the illustrious TIM Natalie Reed. Natalie is known for organizing to disrupt the L’Ecole Polytechnique Massacre 'Day of Remembrance' because it didn't center TIMs. Let that sink in - a woman-hating mass murderer killed 14 women because they were women. Reed, upset that the Day of Remembrance didn't center TIMs, organized other TRAs to protest and disrupt a solemn public memorial dedicated to the 14 women who were murdered. http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/transgender-activists-plan-protest-against-day-of-remembrance-for-women-murdered-in-the-lecole-polytechnique-massacre/
Another FTB blogger by the name of Ophelia Benson was run off FTB for being Gender Critical and is now vilified as a TERF.
I always considered myself a very left leaning person and I still am but I've withdrawn from most leftist spaces because of the toxicity.
I swear, the second TRAs join a group, you know that group will probably be dead within a year, two a most. Trans activism is parasitic. It attaches itself to a host and then proceeds to take all the host's vitality. I have been involved with pro-social community groups and watched them get destroyed when the TRAs show up. Oh, you want to organize a product drive for a domestic abuse shelter? How dare you! TRANS WOMEN ARE DYING! DIRECT YOUR RESOURCES TO THEM! Oh, you want to do a toy drive for foster kids at Christmas? How dare you! TRANS WOMEN ARE DYING! ad nauseum. Pretty soon, people stop showing up and participating. The host is now dead and the TRAs move on to another host and the process repeats all over again.
I'm so sick of this.
He is obviously Cluster B. A malignant NPD. He will never stop as it gets him off. He is completely empty and fills it with his loathing of women. His wife must either be brain washed or same as him. I wish we could find a way of making him pay.
Blocked by him. Do we know who his wife is? Id like to send her a bunch of flowers
Oolon is an infamous character from Free Thought Blogs who evolved from an enemy of the blog's SJWs to their most devoted servant. Even they dont quite trust him and thus he works really hard to prove his credentials. He is sick and I could have told you that 10 years ago.
I’d love to ask his wife if he’s a closeted transvestite. It would explain a lot.
You write: “It’s a mystery why he is so invested in silencing women in favour of abusive and dysfunctional incels.”
Since 2015 I have followed credible independent channels that report on prominent child abuse cases, both in the US and UK. The behaviour exhibited by this man matches perfectly some of the sabotage I witnessed, targeting those groups. Sometimes it’s a single person with sock accounts galore, and what would appear to be a mental health disorder. But they are always relentless and determined and bullet proof, and an appearance on BBC is not unheard of. Destruction of a persons life and reputation is the ultimate goal. It is too familiar a pattern for me to believe they are sole operators. Yes, they really might be but then you learn about the secret police infiltrators of the 1990’s in UK protest movements who used stolen identities from dead people, and you learn about digital orgs like the 77th Brigade. And the same kind of CIA connected operatives working it in the US. What I learned was the independent investigations of child abuse cases had to be absolutely turned upside down. Well meaning groups had to be seeded with doubt and hostility and hosts of any channel daring to report on the sacred subject were pelted with abuse and lies. Disinformation campaigns will forever stain anyone who uses their real name, much like they have done to Graham. Also, Qanon was an obvious psyop from the start, designed to create an offspring movement that could be easily led and then labeled as whacko etc in order to discredit all abuse research, forever cited by establishment hacks. (Big sigh, thanks for listening 😆)