 Setoodeh acknowledged the ability of actors Neil Patrick Harris and Portia de Rossi to play straight characters on television (on "How I Met Your Mother" and "Better Off Ted" respectively) but dismissed them with the claim that they are playing caricatures, not characters.The day after the "Newsweek" article appeared online, LGBT media website AfterElton.com denounced Setoodeh and his conclusions.Editor Michael Jensen noted previous articles by Setoodeh in which he claimed that effeminate characters on television were harmful to the gay movement and seemed to suggest that openly gay teenage murder victim Lawrence King was partially to blame for his own murder because of his effeminate self-expression.