Mentions (31)
"912 – Patrick Bateman collared aesthetic. Many arguments in the basement with him over parking spaces. 'Tell John to go fuck himself,' he would say. neighbor in Question being another of Australia's richest men."
"Women are actually not the ladder-climbing gold diggers the red pill community thinks they are. Hot girls will date a total bum if he's FUN and COOL. You don't need to be rich, ambitious, 6'5 Patrick Bateman type guy to attract women."
"I sit in my Patrick Bateman apartment that I hate, collecting money laundered from the military-industrial complex."
"I've spent my entire life in the suburbs, and all the guys on the apps (I'm gay) are boring yuppies who make Patrick Bateman look sane and normal."
"Bateman is the cultural shorthand for psycho on the big screen but goddamn is Louis Bloom a fucking creep, the dude just oozes inhumanity, completely empty of anything genuine or warm"
"A big part of Patrick's character is that he often projects a facetious socially progressive image, which in the modern day would more accurately translate to performative 'woke-ism' However, these 15 year old tiktok boys craft a persona based entirely on their flaws, both in character and material "
"A dash of vocal fry, and overcompensating enthusiasm with a touch of snark. I imagine it's how Patrick Bateman would sound if he was a real person."
"How do I get my shit together and go Patrick Bateman/Jordan Belfort/Jay Gatsby mode (minus the killing) asap."
"so many of those videos are just like patrick bateman, ryan gosling, or the dude from euphoria walking down a hallway while music plays"
"What celebrity do you baselessly think is secretly a Patrick Bateman-style psycho? Has to be based on gut feeling, so no-one like Jared Leto who has skeletons in his closet that haven't really hit the mainstream yet."
"I'd go through an extremely cringe gymbro Patrick Bateman phase in college. This would be the male equivalent of my anorexia coquette phase."
"Seems like there's a wave of content that applauds coldness or outright antipathy towards other humans. TikTok's of people bragging about cheating on their SOs or old media being repurposed to support an ideal of anger and apathy (see the idolization of Patrick Bateman)."
"What do I do, chat? Keep riding it out and be his friend? My wife and I call him Patrick Bateman, and his wife thanked me a while back for spending time with him and she "knows he's a lot"."
"The most deranged person I know IRL is another gay dude who is adjacent to the spheres I hang out with; he looks up to Patrick Bateman as a role model, his most cherished memory is participating in the Amsterdam pride parade, and he would be perfectly okay with a second civil war"
"I'm not talking about characters like Patrick Bateman or Jordan Belfort where the point is to hate the character yet a bunch of people inexplicably idolize them; I mean cases where it's clear the director or writer has some very questionable morals and their artistic creation is an extension of that"
"Ask 5 women what kind of guys they find hot and you will get 87 different answers from Patrick Bateman to 1996 Alex Jones to current year Alex Jones to one of the dudes in the Weezer album cover."
"why is every autistic character in film/TV either a Big Bang Theory character or Patrick Bateman. We need a spergy fictional character that's just really into legos or visiting roofed bridges."
"Ok, not murderous obviously. But to the extent where the essential core of your personality is kind of 'psychotic', or dissociated from you in some way like that? Definitely not difficult at all. A year or two of isolating yourself from other people and you could easily become like that."
"I choose to believe god made us this way because we would've been too powerful as the other gender. Anna as a man would probably be Patrick Bateman like she said"
"Fuck Bateman, if there exists a character you shouldn't want to emulate but can't help but want to, its the judge."
"All these men going on about how their 'literally me' character is Ryan Gosling or Patrick Batemen but nobody else captures my lack of respect from others, lack of success in life and constant need to adjust my tie than the OG himself"
"She keeps talking about how cool Patrick Bateman is, 🚩?"
"Bateman pure cognitive dissonance: He holds Manhattan high society in contempt because it is vain, shallow, and completely devoid of human connection, with any social interaction reduced to gloating, posturing, and complaining. All that matters is playing the game of being as conspicuously hot and w"
"He also just seems to have biohacking productivity-maxxing Patrick Bateman vibes."
"At the moment I live like a knockoff Bateman. Strict diet, lift and run everyday, in my last year of an economics undergrad degree with good career prospects but alas I have no social life."
"Ask 5 women what kind of guys they find hot and you will get 87 different answers from Patrick Bateman to 1996 Alex Jones to current year Alex Jones to one of the dudes in the Weezer album cover."
"why is every autistic character in film/TV either a Big Bang Theory character or Patrick Bateman"
"Ok, not murderous obviously. But to the extent where the essential core of your personality is kind of 'psychotic', or dissociated from you in some way like that? Definitely not difficult at all. A year or two of isolating yourself from other people and you could easily become like that."
"If American Psycho was written today Patrick Bateman would be a youtuber akin to Mr. Beast"
"At the moment I live like a knockoff Bateman. Strict diet, lift and run everyday"
"Personally I think Patrick Bateman is a try hard. I don't like the guy but the way the author tells the story is addicting. His inner monologue is weird, racked with lies and intrusive thoughts about all kinds of garbage."