Queer as Folk (TV Series)
Smells Like Codependence (2001)
Sherry Miller: Jennifer Taylor
Quotes
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Craig Taylor : [to Jennifer] We're sending him away to school.
[to Justin]
Craig Taylor : It's time you learn some discipline, how to be a man.
Justin : I know all about discipline. And you should see me take it like a man.
[Craig slaps him on the face.]
Jennifer Taylor : Craig!
Justin : [after being slapped by his father] It's all right, Mom! It didn't hurt.
[to his father]
Justin : If you wanna hit me, go right ahead. Only I'm not gonna cry like some little faggot. And if you wanna send me away to school that's all right too. Because I bet more butt-fucking goes on in boarding school than in the backroom of Babylon. But whatever you do, it's not gonna matter. Because I'll still be your queer son.
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Jennifer Taylor : Craig? Aren't you going to say anything?
Craig Taylor : Justin's not gay. Those nude drawings you found, they're probably just an assignment for art class. And the underwear, I'm sure he just bought it for himself.
Jennifer Taylor : It's not his size.
Craig Taylor : Still that's no reason to suspect that he's...
Jennifer Taylor : He told me himself.
Craig Taylor : So what? That doesn't mean anything. A lot of kids think that. They're confused, they're scared...
Jennifer Taylor : He's not confused, he's not scared. He knows. The same way we've always known.
Craig Taylor : No, no, I have not always known.
Jennifer Taylor : At least suspected.
Craig Taylor : No, you've suspected. He's not gay! He's...
Jennifer Taylor : What? Sensitive? Different? Artistic?
Craig Taylor : He's his own person. Not every kid is the quarterback on the football team.
Jennifer Taylor : I think you better talk to him.
Craig Taylor : And say what? "Your Mother thinks you're a homosexual?".
Jennifer Taylor : Before he gets himself into trouble. Before he exposes himself to God-knows-what... If he hasn't already.
Craig Taylor : Wait... You're saying he's doing things?
Jennifer Taylor : He's seventeen. How naive can you be?
Craig Taylor : So why didn't you tell me?
Jennifer Taylor : I promised him I wouldn't.
Craig Taylor : Oh, that's terrific. Don't I have a right to know what's going on around here?
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Justin : You said you wouldn't tell! You promised!
Jennifer Taylor : Justin, I had no choice. I had to tell Daddy.
Justin : You lied to me. You said you wouldn't.
Jennifer Taylor : It was for your own good. When I saw you with this... Brian...
Justin : You keep calling him "this Brian", like that's his name. It's just "Brian".
Jennifer Taylor : [pausing] When I saw you with... Brian..., his arms around you, kissing you, I couldn't believe it! Not for the reason you think. It's not right for a man his age to be touching you! To be having sex with you. And..., even though you may think you... love him..., I'm sure he doesn't love you.
Justin : That's not true.
Craig Taylor : He's an adult! It's illegal for an adult to have sex with a minor.
Jennifer Taylor : Honey, it's not your fault. We don't blame you. We understand this man... enticed you...
Justin : He didn't entice me; I wanted him!
Craig Taylor : Justin... God! You're... you're too young to know what you want...
Jennifer Taylor : Craig, please. You promised you'd stay calm.
Craig Taylor : I... I am calm. And what about A.I.D.S.?
Justin : He wore a condom. I put it onto him myself.
Craig Taylor : Oh! God! I'm calling the police.
Jennifer Taylor : You're not calling anybody. That's all we need, for everybody to know.
Craig Taylor : Wait, you want this monster, this... child molester to go free?
Justin : He didn't molest me and I'm not a child.
[looking at Jennifer]
Justin : I love him... more than anything else in my life. It's all I want - is to be with him.
Craig Taylor : I... don't ever want to hear you say that again. And you are not to see him.
Justin : I'm going to see him. I don't care what you say.
Craig Taylor : I don't think so.
[Justin just walks away from his parents.]
Craig Taylor : No, you're not, Justin. Hey, Justin!
