![]() Consumerist success was really the embodiment of what it meant to be a cool guy-money, trophy girlfriends, nice clothes, and cool cars. I didn't want to be one, because all it was about was status. A lot of it had to do with my frustration with having to become an adult and what it meant to be an adult male in American society. Whenever I am asked to talk American Psycho, I have to remember why I was writing it at the time and what it meant to me. So the character is an early sign of the zeitgeist of sorts? American Psycho was probably the first novel about a metrosexual. ![]() Men being looked at in a way that women had been looked at for decades. ![]() This obsession with male narcissism and beauty. Patrick Bateman seems to embody something about masculinity that was blooming at a certain point in the late '80s to early '90s. It's strange how that character has been co-opted into the culture in a way that he absolutely wasn't in 1991. ![]()
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