"It's strange how that character has been co-opted into the culture in a way that he absolutely wasn't in 1991. Patrick Bateman seems to embody something about masculinity that was blooming at a certain point in the late '80s to early '90s. This kind of damnification of the male. This obsession with male narcissism and beauty. Men being looked at in a way that women had been looked at for decades. American Psycho was probably the first novel about a metrosexual. And of course that's now everywhere."
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