Mysterious Monkeys

The White Lotus 1×3

Mark Mossbacher: Can we not, please? Uh...
Olivia Mossbacher: Even if he wasn't a top, it doesn't mean he was femme. He could've still been butch, Dad.
Paula: Maybe he was a bossy bottom.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yeah, maybe Grandpa was a power bottom. Does that make you feel better?
Mark Mossbacher: No. That makes me wanna throw up.
Olivia Mossbacher: Dad, you don't wanna say that.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, he can say whatever he wants. You know, if he's having a negative visceral reaction to his father having gay sex, it's valid. It's fine.
Olivia Mossbacher: Well, it comes off as homophobic.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, it's not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Well, that's how it comes across.
Nicole Mossbacher: Well, luckily, he's in a safe space and he's here with our family so he can come off however he wants.
Olivia Mossbacher: Up to a point.
Nicole Mossbacher: Or what? You'll cancel him? Dox him? Sic the K-Pop fans on him?
Olivia Mossbacher: See what I have to deal with?

Nicole Mossbacher: Well, you're not sleeping out there again.
Olivia Mossbacher: Mom, he likes it. He's communing with nature.
Nicole Mossbacher: It's funny how you're able to have so much compassion for all these groups of oppressed peoples you don't even know, and yet not for your family.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yep, okay.
Nicole Mossbacher: Who actually know you and love you. Your generation's only sacred value. Biting the hand that feeds you.

Mark Mossbacher: What is real? Like, what... You know? What's real? Are you gay?
Quinn Mossbacher: No.
Mark Mossbacher: Hey. 'Cause if you are, it's okay. Just, like, be real.
Quinn Mossbacher: I am being real.
Mark Mossbacher: What's real is... like, gay, straight, whatever, we're just monkeys, we're just fucking monkeys.
Quinn Mossbacher: Yeah?
Mark Mossbacher: Yeah. Yeah, we're just animals. I mean, you know, we wanna be, like... superheroes and respectable fathers and pillars in our communities, whatever, but-- but in fact, we're just monkeys... living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other.

Mark Mossbacher: I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that screwed me up, Quinn.
Quinn Mossbacher: You think that's what did it?
Mark Mossbacher: Yeah, definitely. Hey, I thought-- My whole life, I thought I was the flawed child of an icon. Like, I put him on this, like, enormous pedestal. Meanwhile, like, he's off in some bathhouse on the DL, getting manhandled by some... like, random dudes... Wow. Oh, I wish I had known.

Mark Mossbacher: But after a few years, it doesn't matter how much role playing you do or, like, toys you buy or porn you watch together, whatever, sex just turns into, like, a-- You know like when they do one of those food challenges on a reality show, you know, where they gotta, like, eat like a bowl of live worms, and you just got-- you gotta psych yourself up for it. You're like, "I can do this. Just hold my nose and, like, suck it down as fast as I can so I don't gag."
Rachel Patton: Yeah...
Mark Mossbacher: But it's natural. I mean, it'd be weird if it didn't fade, you know.

Olivia Mossbacher: You're addicted to porn.
Quinn Mossbacher: No, I'm not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Yes, you are.
Nicole Mossbacher: Don't sex shame him. Boys are sex shamed all the time now. I mean, I know it's very in, but it's not okay... What?
Olivia Mossbacher: You sex shame Dad.
Nicole Mossbacher: I do not.
Olivia Mossbacher: Okay. Whatever gets you through the night.

Nicole Mossbacher: When you're young, sex is powerful and intoxicating. And as we mature, it gets demystified. You realize there are more important things to focus on.
Olivia Mossbacher: Like what? Zooming with China?
Nicole Mossbacher: Like holding onto whatever shreds of dignity you still have.

Shane Patton: Why would he be gaslighting you? This has happened before. Like, people have been coming for me my whole life. I'm just playing the hand I was dealt. Like, yeah. It's a great hand. And that's not my fault.

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