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Alice decides to point out that she likes the penis, and Gloria gets this:

Gloria: "I like sex with men too. Let's just say that I'm predisposed. I bet a lot of you are predisposed, right?"
Carmen: [raising her arms] "Predisposed! Right here!"
Shane: [nodding] "100 percent."
Dana: "As far back as I can remember, yeah, me too."
Alice: "Not me. I follow the heart, not the anatomy."

Dana kind of rubs Alice's shoulder, and looks honestly proud and supportive, and I want Alice to remember that. But she prob'ly won't.

Jenny: "It's always so complicated, isn't it? Some people have a choice and some people don't about this thing, right?"

Well, yeah. I agree. So does Gloria. But you know what's wrong with this scene? This is a TV show, not a group therapy session. You cannot plop Gloria Steinem — who is always very real and always herself — in the middle of a bunch of actors of varying skill, and expect it to work. It's going to seem stagey. Maybe if it had just been Jenny and Kit, it would have worked — because I think maybe Gloria would really like to chat with Mia and Pam — but this crowd is not comfy.

Carmen raises her glass "to choice" and they all clink. "And to Melvin," says somebody. Oh right, we forgot about him for a minute there.

The surrealism grows — Jenny is wearing a weird fur and a tiara, and walking into the Wiltern, where the marquee says

Now, don't get me wrong — I love most of these people, quite a lot. With one exception, of course. Anyway, the point is this: is that not the weirdest collection of words you've ever seen? They put the "wilt" in Wiltern.

And up on the parking ramp, Shane is finding a spot for her Jeep and telling Carmen, "It's a benefit for the Ms. Foundation. Gloria Steinem is hosting it."

The funny part is that Shane pronounces "Ms." as "miss." Oh, Shane. It's okay: you like women.

Anyway, Shane makes Carmen wait; Shane goes around and opens the door for Carmen, and insists on closing it too.

Carmen: "I'm just not used to being treated like such a girl, I guess, so..."
Shane: "What are you talking about, 'treated like a girl'?"
Carmen: "Oh, okay."
Shane: "I thought I'd treat you."
Carmen: "Oh. Okay, right. I get the difference."

Snort.

Rather than try to figure out what all of that meant, I'm happy to focus on the macking that's going on inside the theater. Or, not happy: that's Helena and the gorgeous Leigh Ostin. (Her real-life name is not pretty though. Cobie Smulders? Really?)

Helena: "Did you ever get a girl pregnant?"
Leigh: "No. Have you?"
Helena: "I think you'd look amazing pregnant. Maybe we should have a baby together."

Okay, it's official: Helena is a demon and she's trying to populate the earth with her spawn.

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