You know, I figured there'd be backlash, because Gwen Stacy is up there on a pedestal. I think it's the kind of story readers will rationize as "never having happened". In its defense: A lot of people remembers Gwen Stacy as being this sweet, pure girl and Mary Jane being the party animal, but they either forgot -- or never read -- the earliest stories introducing Gwen. She was such a *****! Really! She put down Peter Parker and smugly hung out with Flash Thompson and her richer friends, and didn't even notice Peter till he got "cool" by driving a motorcycle. Go back and read it, it's all there. Then she was nice to him once she was actually his girlfriend, but that early glimpse of her hinted that, perhaps, she wasn't 100% peaches and cream, after all.