I was unaware of the Dkos background
It was pointed out in a thread I mentioned above, where m-- claimed to "recall", verbatim, extremely arrogant and quite uncharacteristic words from Jérôme on DKos. You might have missed it - though I had just explained it to metavision, who also seemed to have missed it. You did, however, take your cue from my comment, since you took it as understood that manon and mmmm were one person (which you may have privately concluded before - but which had never been openly stated).
So why did you ignore the DKos background in your rewrite of "how manon and mmmm were hurt"? It's simply self-serving to take two episodes - 9/11 and astrology - and conclude that once again the "leadership" has been feelingless and oppressive and hasn't got a clue. I am quite certain you have not read, thread by thread and comment by comment, m-'s progress through ET as front-pagers have. If you want a breakdown, it would be tedious, but it's possible. Including an explanation of how m- seizes on any opposition to make out she's the injured party (eg that her expertise as an engineer was scorned out of misogyny, which was not true - but helps create those perceptions you make so much of).
It should be clear by now that m- has a history that features a certain fixation on Jérôme (and may be extended to any "authority" figure associated with him). How can one say anything about this? Are we to go into psychology? How can we do that with an online multiple-avatar persona who offers a copious amounts of her life-story, but of whose real life we know nothing? Or should we take a narrow view and say: this user is sock-puppeting, this is bad faith towards the community, let's read the riot act?
We (the front-pagers) did neither. We didn't denounce mmmm and let her be in hopes things would work out better this time round. We are now accused of lacking empathy, humanity, understanding, an open mind, but that's plain nonsense. ET is a vibrant and warm community to be part of, and I think the constant carping, largely deaconed by you, Sven, is unjustified. Whatever her personal reasons, mmmm was steering a course towards a door-slam like manon's, and as far as I can make out, mishimishi's on DKos. Those who believed they were empathising with her might at least admit that things might be more complicated and shadowy than they thought.
I think many of us independently figured that. I figured it out before her first conflict as mmmm, at a time she seemed to try to fit back in and even avoided the prior hot-button issues for its sake.
I was hoping it would work out, even after the row in the course of which Sven didn't realise how "Girls, girls, simmer down" can be perceived as offensive, a hope I began to lose after that thread you linked. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
