In direct response to OP's question, of course you can and should be able to express how you feel. Feminism isn't some cold analysis.
Early women's liberation groups which created a hugely sucessful movement were based on groups where women shared experiences and feelings (consciousness raising), and from that then came up with an explantion, ie that the oppression they experienced came from men. Whether as individuals, or from the institutions and attitudes that men had created.
Being meetings IRL where outsiders were not monitoring language it was easier to talk about men with any number of descriptive terms and not have someone report you to some monitor for disrespecting men.
So how to dance on the head of a pin?
I suppose it is about being able to say the idea that someone can change sex makes me feel ..., rather than saying certain people make me feel ...
Not sure if that helps as I too have had threads deleted because I think the idea of what was being said made someone feel uncomfortable and rather than challenge the idea (in fact it was a research report) reported it for being anti something or other.
So I hope this wont stop you posting on here. It is quite honestly obscure, because in the end you are caught between other individuals who may have a personal response to what you have written and rather than replying to you run off to MNHQ. And then who ever is responding to the complaint then uses their personal judgement as to whether the complaint is valid.
I think you are entitled to say to MNHQ what do you mean "not in the spirit"? I'm new here. I cant intuite what you mean by spirit.
In fact it might helps us all if MNHQ wrote a short piece about this "spirit".
