A.V. Club, in a 2010 episode-by-episode review of the show, to quip "when are they going to bone already?" Author Patrick Webster, in a footnote, speculates that the two characters were having sex already, in considering the second-season episode "17 People". Ainsley is also portrayed as a voracious eater; as early as her second episode, Procter remarked that her character was "eating everybody else's leftovers". Procter commented, to her shock, that this was something Sorkin must have observed in her, as Procter's own appetite was well-known in her family. Jon White, a fan who created a website devoted to "17 People", told Vox that her eating habit was a "Quasi-Manic Pixie Dream Girl Quirk Trait™" of Ainsley's, along with her obsession with Gilbert and Sullivan. Sexism Ainsley is sometimes the subject of denigration and misogyny from characters on the show. In addition to Sam calling her a "young, blonde, leggy Republican" who "didn't know anything" before losing to her on Capitol Beat, she was also referred to as a "blond and leggy fascist", a "baton twirler", and a "sex kitten" by various characters on the show. After the first segment of Capitol Beat, Josh yells to Toby, "come quick—Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl". In another incident, after speaking to two male staffers who dislike her aggressive tone, they leave her a bouquet of dead flowers with a card that reads "BITCH". However, some sexism is also embedded in the writing of Ainsley's character. In dealing with the incident involving the bouquet of dead flowers, Sam Seaborn fires the two staffers in Ainsley's defense. In an essay on women characters on The West Wing, Laura K. Garrett argued this removed Ainsley's agency to deal with the problem on her own, avoided the larger question of sexist remarks towards characters on the show, and played into the narrative in which the men are needed to rescue the women from perilous situations. Another incident occurs in the third-season episode "Night Five"; after Sam comments to Ainsley that her outfit "could make a good dog break his leash", a temp worker named Celia Walton tells him in private that she thought his comments were sexist and demeaning. Sam denies this, and ultimately brings Ainsley to his defense, asking her to tell Celia that his comment was not sexist, which she does. When Celia counters that Ainsley is "letting [her] sexuality diminish