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[Anonymous No.18111476]

What the fuck is a hardbody?

[Anonymous No.18111480]

You must not be a homosexual to know

[Anonymous No.18111487]

>>18111476

[Anonymous No.18111490]

>>18111487
yum yum

[Anonymous No.18111493]

>Patrick when racism becomes passe

[Anonymous No.18111495]

>>18111476
hot whore

[Anonymous No.18111497]

>>18111476
A well-sculpted body of someone who works out
>>18111480
But the author is homosexual

[Anonymous No.18111502]

>>18111493
“you people are supposed to be self-effacing!” Yzma growled.

[Anonymous No.18111504]

Someone who works out and shit.

A type of person.

[Anonymous No.18111692]

>>18111480
Ironic since the book is LITERALLY about homosexuality.

[Anonymous No.18111829]

a real smokeshow

the kind that makes you go *jaw drops to floor, eyes pop out of sockets accompanied by trumpets, heart beats out of chest, awooga awooga sound effect, pulls chain on train whistle that has appeared next to head as steam blows out, slams fists on table, rattling any plates, bowls or silverware, whistles loudly, fireworks shoot from top of head, pants loudly as tongue hangs out of mouth, wipes comically large bead of sweat from forehead, clears throat, straightens tie, combs hair* Ahem, you look very lovely.

[Anonymous No.18111993]

>>18111829
You're not supposed to say smokeshow anymore, brah. It's White Boy Summer.

[Anonymous No.18112029]

>>18111476
a fit girl

[Anonymous No.18113214]

Why does Bono tell Bateman that he's the devil?

[Anonymous No.18113240]

>>18113214
he doesn't, Bateman is just having another psychotic break
just kidding, everybody knows the irish are demons

[Anonymous No.18113432]

>>18113214
Because Bateman is a repressed homosexual and is getting sexually aroused by Bono to the point where his neuroticism and paranoia around this desire pushes him into psychosis.

[Anonymous No.18113441]

>>18111476
a guy that faggot Ellis wants to fuck him

[Anonymous No.18113735]

>>18111476
<8% body fat

[Anonymous No.18113758]

>>18113214
The fuck, this passage is in my epub copy but not in my hard copy. Why'd they take it out?

[Anonymous No.18113778]

>>18111476
like a busybody
but hard instead of busy

[Anonymous No.18113788]

>>18111476
a cunt container which doesn't look like a woman.

>>18111692
Meh, Patrick is haute bourgeois slumming it as nomenklatura to "try to fit in" so sure, but similarly it is about the inability of capital as a social function to actually engage in enjoiment.

>>18113758
US version versus UK version?

[Anonymous No.18113807]

>>18113788
>similarly it is about the inability of capital as a social function to actually engage in enjoiment.
True, but also no reading of American Psycho is complete without picking up on the homosexual undertones. Patrick is basically Adorno's gentleman sadomasochist.
>A certain gesture of manliness, be it one’s own, be it that of another, deserves mistrust. It expresses independence, surety of the power of command, the silent conspiracy of all men with each other... The archetype for this is the good looking man in a smoking jacket, who enters his bachelor’s pad alone one late evening, turns on the indirect lighting, and pours a whisky-soda: the carefully recorded fizzing of the mineral water says what the arrogant mouth does not; that he despises whatever does not smell of smoke, leather and shaving cream – above all, women, and for that very reason they swarm all over him. For him, the pinnacle of human relations is the club, the site of a respect founded on a considerate inconsiderateness. The joys of such men, or on the contrary of their models, which hardly anyone alive really matches, for human beings are always better than their culture, have altogether something of the latent act of violence. By all appearances, this is threatened to others, though he has long since had no need to do so, sprawled on his easy chair. In truth it is past violence against himself. If all pleasure sublates earlier displeasure [Unlust], then here displeasure is raised – as pride in bearing it – unmediated, untransformed, stereotypically into pleasure: unlike wine, every glass of whiskey, every puff on the cigar still recalls the reluctance, which it must have cost the organism, to accustom itself to such powerful stimuli. According to their own constitution, the he-men would thus be what they are usually presented as in film scripts, masochists. The lie is concealed in their sadism, and it is as liars that they truly become sadists, agents of repression. That lie is nothing other than repressed homosexuality, which emerges as the only approved form of what is heterosexual.

[Anonymous No.18113811]

>>18113758
I just read some shitty version from libgen and I'm pretty sure it was missing from that too. What the shit? Also at one point Bateman says
>I could care less
>mfw

[Anonymous No.18113855]

>>18113807
>True, but also no reading of American Psycho is complete without picking up on the homosexual undertones. Patrick is basically Adorno's gentleman sadomasochist.
The first dinner party is the cue there to Patrick's homosexuality, his desire to fuck the man-artist he detests: the man-artist is both homosexually out and capable of (what Patrick ironically believes to be) "art." Isn't Patrick the brother of that University rapist? Patrick is the same deal, only, as alienated as capital is from the purportedly socially useful object.

His hatred of the gay nomenklatura is pathetic, "your compliment was sufficient." But this is about as HARDGAY as hardbodies are actually women.

Your quoted passage is a perfect example of Patrick regurgitating second year Bachelor of Arts reading, or New York Times reviews ("Do you like Phil Collins?"). His constant regurgitation of texts. Oh wait it is actually Adorno. I never realised Adorno was a gay sociopath: I spent my time reading about working class self-organisation in marxism.

[Anonymous No.18113864]

>>18113855
Wait, by man-artist do you mean the stoner dude who played with his sushi? He had a gf though.

[Anonymous No.18113869]

>>18113864
Yeah, I mean the guy disinterested in the raw fish in front of him and sitting next to him, where Patrick shows that he can play in the world of art, but lacks passion, yeah that guy, the guy who doesn't want to eat wet raw fish in front of Patrick, that guy.

[Anonymous No.18113882]

>>18113869
Never thought of it as a metaphor for pussy. Based autist.

[Anonymous No.18113896]

>>18113882
if you give me a $20000 grant I'll supply a full reading of American Psycho through a gay marxist wallersteinian lens.

[Anonymous No.18113921]

>>18113896
Dubs and you post it for free

[Anonymous No.18113930]

>>18113921
Sorry love, you're going to have to "pay" for my "labour power."

[Anonymous No.18113952]

>>18113930
Fuck, it was worth a shot.

[Anonymous No.18113960]

>When asked in an interview in 2002 whether he was gay, Ellis explained that he did not identify as gay or straight but was comfortable being thought of as homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual and enjoyed playing with his persona, identifying variously as gay, straight and bisexual to different people over the years

So... is he even gay? Or is he just messing with the media? Did he ever have sex with a man?

[Anonymous No.18113967]

>>18113960
He's just a chill based boy

[Anonymous No.18113969]

>>18113960
>Did he ever have sex with a man
It depends on what you mean by "man."

But culturally he's gay.

[Anonymous No.18114033]

>>18113960
Yeah he fucked the dude he dedicated Lunar Park to. He's just cynical about the >muh community meme, as anyone should be.
>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."
Holy based.

[Anonymous No.18114049]

>>18114033
But if you're straight it gets worse.

Dan Savage is talking relatives. BEE is talking absolutes. Even though BEE is a fucken coked up fucked cunt who wrote two juvenailias and one seminal novel. Yes I know what seminal means.

[Anonymous No.18114076]

>>18111487
More like jelly