I have been trampled on at the Ms. forum for taking Lynne to task. I have also been chided for having a membership here, although there are numerous people at Ms. who post here and read this forum regularly. Lynne is a self proclaimed Radical Feminist who has amalgamated his personal/political agenda into his feminist title. Lynne's stance on feminism changes like the wind, perhaps this is what feminism has become which is a movement never to be defined. The women of that forum who stand behind Lynne may or not be seeing his malice toward other women clearly, they look at his soapbox yammerings of truest female, truest anti male and so forth, and forget about how he manipulates his position to oppress other women who refuse to accept it. For one thing, how can a group of women keep men who support their movement at bay and in their place, and allow one who has afforded himself a sex change to belittle women? They are for the most part not supportive of cosmetic surgery and women who have them but somehow this man is held in high esteem?
The policies regarding posting at Ms. are that you are respectable of feminism and somehow Lynne misconstrues that as "Be respectful to Lynne as he deems suitable because he is a feminist". That is not the case as I see it. I have not been banned yet although I believe I will be. I won't fret over it too badly, but it is a shame there are women who present their opinion and are silenced by this hatred that calls itself " A woman legally, a radical feminist". I am not impressed with titles and soapbox proclamations as I am more moved by actions. Lynne's actions and those who can allow that over there are not in any way supportive of women, it is merely dominance and control over another's freedom of expression. And yes, they who support what Lynne does do in fact don the coat of their worst enemy, the oppressor.