Responding to Dan Savage’s It Gets Better campaign, aimed at preventing suicide among LGBT youth, Ellis tweeted, “Not to bum everyone out, but can we get a reality check here? It gets worse.”
What was the point of American Psycho as a satire if you’re going to take neutral stances on people like Trump you were supposedly satirizing … it makes the book ring as hollow and inauthentic, as pretending to be satire … satire is typically written by moralists to make a point, and if we reveal the author comes across not as a moralist but as even annoyed by critics of the politics and culture he was supposedly satirizing, it calls a lot into question about the book, at least for me.
yeah, honestly I see no reason to read American Psycho, it’s one of the few books I regretted reading
EDIT: not to mention the author comes across as, at best neutral, and at worst an apologist for right-wing politics, and there is also this:
from Wikipedia …
What was the point of American Psycho as a satire if you’re going to take neutral stances on people like Trump you were supposedly satirizing … it makes the book ring as hollow and inauthentic, as pretending to be satire … satire is typically written by moralists to make a point, and if we reveal the author comes across not as a moralist but as even annoyed by critics of the politics and culture he was supposedly satirizing, it calls a lot into question about the book, at least for me.