Lu was wasting away in prison as her mother breathed her last. As an opponent of society's deeply ingrained tendency to downgrade the status of women, she has butted heads with harsh critics all her life. But what have her reasoned pronouncements earned her? The authorities in Beijing have labeled her "scum of the earth" while many Taiwanese call her an "IBM" (" international bigmouth ").
做為一個挑戰社會最深沈的男尊女卑傳統之人，她更是無時無刻不在面對種種非難與質疑，直到今天，她誠實而溫和的發言卻被彼岸罵作狂悖、囂張，許多台灣人也叫她 IBM (international big mouth)。