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The house of introspection — There's Mark again. He's brought coffee and "organic scone things." Shane just sort of stares.

Mark: "I'm fuckin' lost, man."

Shane gets that, so she lets him try to talk to Jenny.

Mark: "I wish so much that there was something I could do."
Jenny: [cutting him off] "No, I don't think there's anything you can do. I think you did it."
Mark: "When I moved in here, I was the type of guy who was capable of doing shit like this. But I am not that guy anymore. I know that I've said it before, but you and Shane have made me a better man."
Jenny: "Oh, fuck off, Mark. It's not my job to make you a better man, and I don't give a shit if I've made you a better man. It's not a fucking woman's job to be consumed and invaded and spat out so that some fucking man can evolve."

Oh, pause, please, so I can clap. Well said, Miss Schecter.

But Mark keeps going: he says that through his mistake, he has learned how difficult it is to be a woman. Jenny and I both scoff at this. So just to prove that he's as extreme as Jenny, Mark takes off his clothes.

Jenny: "What are you doing?"
Mark: "Is this what you want?"
Jenny: "No. [throws a pen at him] What I want you is for you to write 'Fuck Me' on your chest. Write it. Do it. And then I want you to walk out that door and I want you to walk down the street. And anybody that wants to fuck you, say 'sure, sure, no problem.' And when they do, you have to say 'thank you very, very much.' And make sure that you have a smile on your face. And then, you stupid fucking coward, you're gonna know what it feels like to be a woman."

Um. Did you see what Mia Kirshner just did? She just took a raw moment and a profound truth, and she delivered it just like a woman who's raw, profound, and true.

Yeah, I've been won over. Bring it on. Also, kudos to Elizabeth Hunter, who wrote this episode.

Shane stumbles in as Mark gets dressed. He's embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for him, but I get that maybe he's changed. I also get that it really isn't Jenny's job to help him do that, and it's also really not in my interest to see him naked again. Let's skip that next time.

The Pride parade — The people on the Gay and Lesbian Center float are thrilled to see Dana, but not so impressed with Howie and Alice. I'm not impressed with Alice either, at least not with her terrycloth shorts and ... hmm, what I used to call a "boob tube." Did she forget the roller skates and disco ball? I had that outfit when I was 8. But I was EIGHT, and it wasn't the twenty-first century.

Dana tries to convince the LAGLC rep that Alice is "my girlfriend" and a celebrity too, but it's not working. The rep says that only the people on her clipboard get to be on the float, and that it will be fun for Alice and Howie to watch Dana from the crowd.

Alice: "Well, it's not like it's the HRC or the GLAAD float or anything anyway."
LAGLC rep: "What?"
Alice: [defiant] "You heard me."

Haha! It's the queer advocacy group death match! Where are the peeps from Tina's Headquarters for Social Justice? Let's throw in Lambda Legal and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and some mud or jello or kid's choice slime or something. My money's on Kevin Cathcart.

As Dana gets on the float, Alice says, sarcastically, "sweet of her." Dana's clearly into her moment. And Howie's getting into his own moment as a cute guy eyes him, but Alice shoos the cute guy away and apologizes to Howie for the "meat market" thing.

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