I very much agree with Vexx...
A similar outburst also happened with Minna of Strike Witches. Just because it was revealed that she had a boyfriend and could have done "X, Y and Z", her popularity since that episode dropped all the way to hell.
""Purity" bullshit" is right...and I couldn't have described it any more to the point
edit:
Oh...there is an actual
article on it...