I'm not bullying anyone, Carl. I never asked him to leave. I faulted him for showing up on a Sapphics appreciation thread to say that all the poems that people selected as their favorites, including poems that they themselves had written, weren't just bad, but that their authors had wasted their time because (as they should have known) you can't write good Sapphics in English. Again, it's like showing up at a club for rose enthusiasts to tell them roses actually smell bad and cannot be grown successfully. If you feel that way, don't join the club.
But fine. If I've been too hard on him, I will back off and watch from the sidelines as the rest of you politely engage. We'll see how that works out.
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