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What she doesn’t mention in her thread is that she accepted the assignment, wrote a powerful essay, and I was very happy with it.

We live in opposite coasts, and I rarely travel these days. My outing myself as poly (something I have discussed openly here) was in part

to put her at ease, because of the nature of her writing, which I can’t discuss without violating her privacy.

There’s a whole chain of email that follows that again, she’d be fine posting, but I’m obviously not going to.

This is all uninteresting to most people, and I don’t want deny someone the ability to complain about how I interacted with them.

Women should share stories about men who have boundary issues and misuse positions of power.

But here—I live 3,000 miles away and was trying to reassure a writer I wasn’t shopping for something tawdry.

I also don’t know about the other writers she’s mentioning. I only wrote a handful of emails to people suggesting they pitch during the

brief life of The Magazine. She had a powerful voice, and I’m glad we published her work.

I totally am not going to say anything against her for her reaction to my email. There’s more context, but she’s entitled to her reaction.

Now back to our regularly scheduled national horror.

One last thing: why am I writing about this and linking to her tweet? I’m amplifying something I think is unfair to me?

Even though logistically it makes no sense that this is a come on, she has every right to talk about it.