From Joss Whedon, in the aforementioned Comments thread:
# Joss Whedon Says:Posted by rv at February 18, 2006 11:28 PM to humor
February 16th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Wow, we both went right to the cross-dressing humor! This is just like the Algonquin round table, except there's only two of us, and no table, and no particular surfeit of wit, and no great certainty about how spell ‘Algonquin’. Huzzah!
Absolutely hysterical!
Posted by: poz at February 20, 2006 01:52 PM