As a matter of fact, I don't "insist" on it, but if she did not, then she explained it in a thoroughly incredible way. She wanted us to believe, if you remember, that she had no idea that a gay major character would be welcomed by the fandom; this, if you please, after a decade of slash. More important is that, whether or not she had meant it from the start, she did a lousy job of it, showing her usual clumsiness with male characters in love.