"We should do another purple neighborhood."

They go to another purple neighborhood. Purples vote. An even gender mix of purples can be coaxed temporarily out of nail, hair, and makeup salons.

"That's so weird, man."

"What is?"

"Guy cosmeticians."

"What?" says a guy nail artist.

" - on Earth we don't have castes but there are jobs for men and jobs for ladies and that's a lady job."

"That's stupid," says the guy nail artist. "We don't have to do that if we do the aliens thing, do we?"

" - of course not. Even on Earth people don't have to, they just want to."

"I'm fucking amazing at nails," says the nail artist.

"He is," agrees one of his co-workers.

"You do you, man."

Purples take ballots.

"Are dudes who do makeup and nails pretty much all gay or is that not a thing either," he asks Cahmro when they have left.

"...what does that have to do with anything?"

" - that's just how it is with humans. Also, like, musical theatre and fashion and shit, the dudes in that are gonna be gay."

"I guess that's... convenient for them...? What the fuck?"

"...I guess it doesn't seem weird if you're used to it. I don't think it's even a discrimination thing, not totally."

"...why would it be?"

" - like, you know, you can't be out so you can do plausibly deniable shit like musical theatre and fashion?"

"Can you check if your translation thing is broken?"

"I can turn it off and back on again." He does that. 

"Say the thing again?"

"It might be that there are so many gay men in fashion and theatre because if you can't be out, doing fashion and theatre is a decent way to meet other gay men."

"If you can't be what?"

"Is this about the election?" asks a passerby.

"No, sorry," - ballots, voting spiel - and when it's a bit quieter - "if you can't be out, like, if you're acting normal and pretending you're not gay."