“we talked about how martian-like patrick bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. and then one day [christian] called me and he had been watching tom cruise on david letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.”
- mary harron
This is such an epic dis on Tom Cruise that the showrunners of the most recent The Stand production eluded too it with Harold Lauder
until you said that it never occurred to me that the woman in STEM was the scientist and not the rat. i was just like “hell yeah, this rat is a powerful woman pioneering lifesaving technologies as a rescue ranger”
Sometimes in the American, capitalist, neurotypical system, you just have to put on the shit eating grin and say you are right and I am wrong, even when that is not the case. That has been one of the hardest things for me to deal with.
A female character being widely hated is a huge green flag.If my experiences with fandoms and critics have taught me anything,it's that if that's how they react to her,that i'm about to meet the most based fictional girl to ever exist
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