{"id":160219,"date":"2025-04-05T06:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/mike-white-talks-gender-fetish-in-podcast-interview-w-conservative-bigot-andrew-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:07:30","slug":"mike-white-talks-gender-fetish-in-podcast-interview-w-conservative-bigot-andrew-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/mike-white-talks-gender-fetish-in-podcast-interview-w-conservative-bigot-andrew-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike White Talks Gender &#038; Fetish in Podcast Interview w\/conservative bigot Andrew Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">here&#8217;s mike white (creator and sole writer\/director of the white lotus) coming out to dogwhistle to terfs about sam rockwell&#8217;s autogynephilia monologue and the two genders on andrew sullivan&#8217;s racist, transphobic podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nrYkSDRo5X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nrYkSDRo5X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 little lord fuckleroy (@_aetheling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_aetheling\/status\/1907490211568734573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Director\/Actor\/Writer\/Producer Mike White appeared on conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s podcast to talk about his life, identity politics in writing, being on reality tv, and White Lotus. A certain segment in which they talk about Sam Rockwell&#8217;s infamous monologue in a recent episode has come under recent online scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan: &#8220;Tell me the origins of that idea [Sam Rockwell coming out as an autogynephiliac]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White: &#8220;The show this season is using these Buddhist concepts to talk about identity [&#8230;] This idea of desire, where does it come from? In the sense, <b>it&#8217;s very clear for some people that a masculine man sees in a woman this feminine thing that he doesn&#8217;t have, and he&#8217;s trying to get that and through sex&#8211; You know, we&#8217;re made into two genders, and so there&#8217;s just this&#8211; I think it&#8217;s just we&#8217;re hard wired to want to merge those things. That&#8217;s kind of what I guess sex drive is.<\/b> And then when you&#8217;re attracted to the thing that you already have, it always begs the question, what is it that you&#8217;re looking for? What is the thing that is outside of you? If you inhabit it, then what is that other thing you&#8217;re looking for? <b>And then I think there&#8217;s just so many different kinds of versions, variations, of self. Desire or whatever, and I do think that some of the&#8211; you talk about autogynephilic or just&#8211; Each person has their own version of this. Even a straight guy with a woman, it&#8217;s a different thing, each thing. There&#8217;s a different fetish within the fetish- <\/b>[clip ends]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_aetheling\/status\/1907490211568734573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em\"><i>It&#8217;s a cleaned up transcription because he says a bunch of filler words and starts and stops a lot<\/i><\/span><br \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/130324707.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s mike white (creator and sole writer\/director of the white lotus) coming out to dogwhistle to terfs about sam rockwell&#8217;s autogynephilia monologue and the two genders on andrew sullivan&#8217;s racist, transphobic podcast pic.twitter.com\/nrYkSDRo5X \u2014 little lord fuckleroy (@_aetheling) April 2, 2025 Director\/Actor\/Writer\/Producer Mike White appeared on conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s podcast to talk about his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}