"Yeah," he says slowly, almost wondering. Jules says it like that, putting the whole thing in the context of gender, which isn't something Eddie has thought much about one way or the other, and suddenly the crap his dad made him do can fit into that context in ways he didn't realize.

"I never felt the way you did," he says, wanting to preface what he's about to say, because he doesn't want Jules to think he's comparing their lives at all. It's not about anything like that, he's just realized how right she is.

"I was always into metal," he tells her. "Always wanted my hair like this, always wanted to wear certain clothes. My dad used to force me to shave my head. Total buzzcut, you know? He said having long hair made me look like a-" He pauses, because even being from the eighties, Eddie knows it's a slur. "Well, you can figure out what he said."