In the opening episode of the new series of The White Lotus the Di Grasso family are having dinner at the hotel – a typically fraught affair. Albie (Adam DiMarco), a Stanford graduate who says all the right things about sex and gender, has just expressed his disgust that his randy, farting grandfather Bert (F Murray Abraham) still talks about bedding young women. He has told him that he shouldn’t be flirting so outrageously with the hotel staff – or really having any sex life at all. Bert feels he is being age-shamed and says that even young people’s sexual organs aren’t that pretty. As he puts it: “I mean, it’s a penis, it’s not a sunset.” Later Bert tells his grandson: “We used to
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