Jia Tolentino

Yeah. Right?

Yeah. Right?

Right. It turns out that I need to put on lingerie and perfume and pretend I am an Asian girl. And also I have to pay an Asian girl to sit in the corner of the room and stare at us.

Right. It turns out that I need to put on lingerie and perfume and pretend I am an Asian girl. And also I have to pay an Asian girl to sit in the corner of the room and stare at us.

Right.

Right.

Right. Actually, Frank has found out. Frank has has a very particular angle on the idea of identity being a prison.

Right. Actually, Frank has found out. Frank has has a very particular angle on the idea of identity being a prison.

And he's found a very particular solution. And it is one that it's like, oh, this man has more access to the deepest, darkest, truest parts of himself. You know, but also you can't look at Frank and say, oh, he's enlightened. You know, it's like he's still giving like every other person is an instrument to me. Right.

And he's found a very particular solution. And it is one that it's like, oh, this man has more access to the deepest, darkest, truest parts of himself. You know, but also you can't look at Frank and say, oh, he's enlightened. You know, it's like he's still giving like every other person is an instrument to me. Right.

Like it's like the way that he conceives of this profound truth of his sexual identity is only reached through Frank. blunt force, mass scale, instrumentalization of other people's identities and bodies. So it's like he's transcended and yet he's deeper in the shit than anyone else too.

Like it's like the way that he conceives of this profound truth of his sexual identity is only reached through Frank. blunt force, mass scale, instrumentalization of other people's identities and bodies. So it's like he's transcended and yet he's deeper in the shit than anyone else too.

Yeah, and there's a way in which it's this very funny perversion of this Buddhist idea of reincarnation and different souls in different bodies and that in a past life we could have been this other thing.

Yeah, and there's a way in which it's this very funny perversion of this Buddhist idea of reincarnation and different souls in different bodies and that in a past life we could have been this other thing.

Right.

Right.

Oh, he's so good, this episode. The shift from swaggering business dad to broken sack of Play-Doh.

Oh, he's so good, this episode. The shift from swaggering business dad to broken sack of Play-Doh.

We had learned earlier in the episode that he was an altar boy. He prays for deliverance.

We had learned earlier in the episode that he was an altar boy. He prays for deliverance.