"Personally, I think LLL needs to work on their image."

Sorry, but I just gotta wonder WHOSE image are we really talking about?
I think that the message and the messenger have lives of their own.
Do comments like this one sound just a little bit like what might be
said to the RN-IBCLC advocating for appropriate approaches to the
breastfeeding mothers at her hospital—or am I being paranoid?
"Many people" does not a public make,
and I was not talking about Leaders when I said that LLL is responsive
to the people it serves.
This misperception of LLL is important to me because it may have
a bearing on whether or not I can work effectively with other health
professionals in my community—this despite some effort on my part to
kindly and calmly—and maybe too quietly—dispel them over a period of
eight years.
If a person or an organization rubs a few people the wrong way, is it
appropriate to tell that so-and-so to "work on image?"

Still willing to hear what you have to say,
Diane, LLLL in Vermont