"...yeah, that'd be a problem. But-- masculinity and femininity are about actions. It sucks, but you're not failing."

"Well, then being gay is caused by the other thing. Where being feminine like you're supposed to makes you want to die."

"Maybe that's how it is in Gilead."

"I couldn't anyway. Because I'm lazy and overemotional and disobedient and kind of an asshole."

"You've managed to fake being chill and nice pretty well so far."

"Well, sure, all I'm doing is having a nice late-night conversation with a cute guy, you're not seeing me grocery shopping."

"I'll make sure to avoid that. --unless you think two people being very bad at grocery shopping would be funny way to spend an afternoon."

"I mean, mostly I start crying in the middle of the grocery aisle because I don't know what the objectively right kind of oatmeal to buy is, it's not a fun time for anyone."

"Oh, yeah, that'd be-- unfortunate. It's great how there's so many things in one place but it's also kind of terrible, because there's just so many things."

"Decisions are very difficult! This is why food magically appears in the house courtesy of the Food Fairy now.:"

"Another great Cascadian invention."

"Asher is a great Cascadian invention?"

"Could any other country have made him?"

"Honestly he'd have a great time in Gilead as a member of the secret police."

"I feel like Gilead would disapprove of the mostly naked running, secret police or not. But you'd know better than me."

"Guys can run shirtless because girls don't lust after shirtless men. --Well, I do but I'm a pervert."

"I would have expected that only wearing underwear would cross the line for the country of 'you can't wear sweaters, people might realise you re naked under them.'"

"That's true. He'd have to wear blue jeans. --Only girls have to worry about the sweater thing though! Because men are visual."

They put their head on Jing Yi's shoulder.

"Because no woman in history has ever wondered what's going on under someone's clothes, and if they did, then something's wrong with them."

A head on his shoulder! He is Honoured. 

"I used to be like 'if I can't imagine how visual men are they must just be obsessed with naked women all the time' but then I moved to Cascadia and got on testosterone-- uh, that's the chemical that causes you to be a man-- and I think I am in fact just visually attracted to people."

"If we were that obsessed, we'd never get anything done! ...then again, the amount of times the course of history has been changed because someone got distracted by someone pretty--"

"See, that's why you shouldn't put me in a position of power, I would definitely wind up changing the course of history by being distracted by someone pretty."

"So many wars lost, because someone pretty walked by and Rose was in charge~"

"To be fair, I would lose more by getting overwhelmed and breaking into tears or by being too lazy to order troop movements."

"That would also be a problem. We've just got to hope there aren't any wars where you're the only one qualified to do any general-ing."