Ah, but first you'd simply say: nope not gay, that's for sure.
CV has not said: nope don't have a problem with not feeling good enough, nope I'm not a perfectionist. Rather, she confirms and then reverses, or simply deflects.
As a master of deflection via argument myself, it is easy to see. Indeed, I used the same strategy in my previous M in which I was hypercritical of XH to avoid looking at myself because it hurt too much. If one has reasonably good argumentative skills, it is easy to stomp a discussion out with argumentative slight of hand.
