Carey describes Turk as fun, young and upscale, and tells us how "expired" he is to be designing for Trina Turk, because he's always wanted to design clothes, and this is the apparently only time he'll have the chance to do that. It's awfully telling that his basic comment on the way this episode/season plays out is that he's now started a bathing suit company, as though to somehow get Trump's respect or prove a point or something. In the van, he sketches out a cute boy-cut suit. Oh, it's for boys. I don't know what you call that, I guess spandex man-panties. I've seen people in them, of course, and there's a small margin of not-scary that you can hit with them; there's a window of actual hotness rather than eye-rupturing ill judgment that is attainable. Aaron's queasy about it and tries exactly once to be cool: "Um, gotta be careful... the print's gotta be pretty masculine if the shorts are that... small?" He does a hilarious bunchy fingers gesture at this, like he's squeezing a ripe orange still on the tree. Carey snorts -- "Not if your market's gay" -- and one of the ladies, I don't know which, agrees. Aaron nods, a little off-put, because that was not at all what he was saying, but Carey's got this idea in his head. As we will see, this is not an idea that you can get out of Carey's head, and it is wrong, and if there were a Project Manager maybe he or she could point that out, or introduce Carey to reality, or overrule him, or do anything at all other than "motivating" him to make a terrible error of judgment, but since there's no PM this week, I guess he'll have to hang. (Ahem.)

Aaron interviews that two of the men's suits are short, tight trunk cuts. "The suits that Carey wears are probably not the suit that most of the guys in America wear." True, and I am with Aaron, because most of the guys in America are A) not in shape and B) not interested in having their goodies on the shelf for sale. And yeah, it's a gay thing, but not the gay thing Aaron betrays with his next eye-rolling statement in the van, about how they are both allowed to have opinions, but Aaron's is the "straight male" one. Which is also right, but there's a spin on it and the spin is this: Carey's style is not the gay style, it's a gay style. It's unnecessarily limited, and has no mainstream appeal, and that's all you have to say. Saying it's unappealing because it's gay is... an ugly simplification that skips most of the valid dots instead of connecting them, or -- since we're all adults -- leaving them unconnected because we're all on the same page. This episode is less about which stereotypes are valid, and more about which stereotypes are okay. (Hint: "maybe sometimes, but never good to say aloud"; and "no.")