 On May 10, 2010, Ramin Setoodeh wrote a piece responding to the controversy.Titling it "Out of Focus", Setoodeh asserted that his intention "was not to disparage my own community, but to examine an issue that is being swept under the rug", the issue supposedly being that society as a whole has trouble accepting openly gay actors in straight roles, and that he wanted to start a debate on the subject.He characterized much of the criticism directed at him as "attacks" and said that his opponents were twisting his words.