Melissa has taken off all her clothes many times in front of J. As she says, with characteristic exaggeration, he must have seen her naked "hundreds of times," yet she's never seen him naked once. She thinks this is deeply unfair, but J comes right out and tells Melissa that he's not taking his clothes off for her.

Not willing to accept this, Melissa strips and stands naked before J. She holds out both arms, showing J the fresh cuts she's inflicted on herself:

"J, here's my body, every inch, and yes, I cut, so what?" Melissa was practically shouting now. "You’ve seen it before. If your body's so different from mine, I want to see it!"

Unsurprisingly, J feels trapped, "like a rat in a cage." He's being pressured to do something he doesn't want to do by a friend who seems to have "lost her mind." J responds to this very uncomfortable situation by telling Melissa in a soft voice that his body isn't any different from hers. Like everyone else in his life, he thinks, Melissa doesn't understand him.

Melissa realizes her mistake and comforts J. She thought that because J is transgender, his body was different from her own. But in actual fact, J explains, it's his brain that's different, not his body.

Just as J has seen Melissa naked many times before, but she hasn't seen him in the same state, so Melissa has never seen J cry before until now, though he's seen her cry on numerous occasions.