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As criticism mounted, Leslie Headlin attempted to soften the controversy. She claimed it was “reductive” to describe the witches as lesbians and suggested that her creation was more about their matriarchal society than their sexualities. She emphasized that the witches’ community is devoid of men, and thus their attraction or reproductive practices are “natural,” yet she also pointed out that she anticipated audiences would associate their queerness with their identity as lesbians.