Serena Joy Waterford is aggressively respecting his right to man time in his man cave!

Fred is reading Stranger In A Strange Land with his feet on his desk. 

And now his man cave contains a non-man. 

"Hi! I like your taste in books."

"Aaaaaaaaaaa!"

Fred recovers. "Uh, I mean-- I'm reading it for research purposes! Really! Got to know what those Satanists are up to!"

"Why is everyone's first impulse 'lie to God?' At least the other guy was actually doing something objectionable. I wasn't being sarcastic, I decided it would be convenient to have a Commander publicly on my team and picked you because you have a dead baby I can resurrect on television and you have good taste in books."

"Oh! Thank you. Sorry about that, you surprised me."

"Yeah, suddenly showing up has that effect on people. Anyway, the Gileadite government is in fact wrong about a whole lot of stuff. Sooooo much stuff. I'm going to go on TV and resurrect a bunch of babies and explain stuff the Gileadite government is wrong about, and I can protect you from the Eyes afterwards. Also, you should stop cheating on your wife, the books are fine but adultery is in fact bad."

"If you're planning on eradicating adultery among the Gilead elite it is going to take a while."

"Not especially, but you seem like a mostly okay dude. And also I'm about to declare a lot of supposedly sexually immoral things fine, so it seemed worth clarifying that having sex with someone not your spouse without said spouse's knowledge or consent was still not fine."

"May I ask you some questions?"

"Oh, definitely!"

"First, is Keturah okay? Last I saw of her I was arranging her marriage to a Satanist Canadian spy to avoid having to forcibly impregnate her against her will, but we've fallen out of touch."

"Iiiiiii will have to check up on that, I am not omniscient qua omniscient while in human flesh and also I prefer to not invade people's privacy for the heck of it."

"It's not urgent. I doubt I have much ability to improve her life. I do worry about her."

"Kudos on refraining from impregnating her against her will."

"I'm not a monster."

"No, but you do have some pretty fucked-up cultural scripts."

"Become powerful and then you can ignore your cultural scripts and do whatever you want! --At least until the Second Coming appears in your office and tells you that you have to stop cheating on your wife."

"I'd say I'm sorry but I'm honestly not. On the other hand, I see no reason why she oughtn't go back to writing books."

"That was my second question! She's a lot happier when she gets a chance to write. She is an intelligent and talented Proverbs 31 woman who is utterly wasted on folding my underwear."

"Complementarianism is to a first approximation nonsense!"

"I have literally no idea how this revelation will affect my marriage."

Shrug. "I can't see the future, so not me."

"Do you want me to call Nick? He's the Eye who spies on me, although I'd appreciate it greatly if you acted like I believed he was my personal assistant."