Thank you for writing this; that agent's post and its comments made me so furious.
If Brown and Smith did make all this up as a publicity stunt, then wouldn't the easiest response just be for them to announce that they're shocked to hear such vile rumors about an agency whose interactions with them were always perfectly unobjectionable, and it was some other agency that they were talking about in the first place? That would have made the agent's post look silly, defused the whole issue, and let them get on with their publicity stunt. Instead, they confirmed that this is the agency in question, which is what created the they-said-she-said mess that's dragging their own reputations through the mud. Not that I think there's the slightest chance that they were lying, knowing Rachel and Sherwood. But my point is that cynical explanation suggested by the world-weary logicaler-than-thou folks who are calling out this "hoax" doesn't even make sense on its own terms. It's almost like their decision to attack these people talking about institutionalized homophobia is based on something other than pure logic after all.
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If Brown and Smith did make all this up as a publicity stunt, then wouldn't the easiest response just be for them to announce that they're shocked to hear such vile rumors about an agency whose interactions with them were always perfectly unobjectionable, and it was some other agency that they were talking about in the first place? That would have made the agent's post look silly, defused the whole issue, and let them get on with their publicity stunt. Instead, they confirmed that this is the agency in question, which is what created the they-said-she-said mess that's dragging their own reputations through the mud. Not that I think there's the slightest chance that they were lying, knowing Rachel and Sherwood. But my point is that cynical explanation suggested by the world-weary logicaler-than-thou folks who are calling out this "hoax" doesn't even make sense on its own terms. It's almost like their decision to attack these people talking about institutionalized homophobia is based on something other than pure logic after all.