>>24512523
>Ellis writes like a faggot. So whiny and feminine. "Oh I've never felt more alienated". Gay.
And even with that, he STILL views the modern popular politically-correct brand of liberalism/social progressivism as even GAYER than he himself is. Kek. It just goes to show how insane the culture has become today. Even the literal catty faggot, Bret Easton Ellis, who STILL has views that would be regarded as very leftist or socially progressive in the just recent past (simple instance, that there’s nothing wrong with being openly gay, or supporting gay marriage), sees various people today, seething about Trump and white men and the like, as even MORE faggoty and whiny than himself.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=bret+easton+ellis+on+liberals+and+trump

And honestly I agree and at least respect him to that extent. Even this faggot is here going, “Holy shit, liberals today, and it seems especially Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids, are being MASSIVE faggots.” The gayness gives him that sort of catty, snarky, sometimes feminine way of tearing others down, snideness, mockery and the like, but his being a male gives him that testosterone boost and degree of healthy chauvinism. So honestly >>24512451 criticizes him for that but I personally like >>24512780’s post:
>He's kind of delightful in his way. But yeah don't bother reading him
That’s my honest reaction to him and his personality today. It entertains and charms me to an extent,
But to get back to speaking of /lit/, he also had the unfortunate tendency of, I think, tearing down greater writers than himself, like Alice Munro and even (yes) DFW. Although the DFW feud I can sympathize with to an extent, because DFW was actually pretty openly harsh on B.E.E.’s works and ethos, so I could see where Ellis’s wounded pride and going on the attack here could come from. He used Ellis as an example of modern nihilistic, ironic, satirical postmodern literature which, in satirizing or attacking the vapidity of the modern day, becomes just as crude, shallot, or nihilistic itself.
But that’s artists for ya! Big egos. It’s either great or awful, depending on what they do with it, how they manifest it, and how it inspires their works and how good those works are.

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