After reading the topic of the week I was reminded of several things, as this chapter to me, seemed rather graphic in nature. A reoccurring subject in the chapter was the portrayal of females in art; how it has changed or not. It left me thinking is there a right way to portray a woman in art? If you find artworks that are quite graphic, interesting – is that wrong? Especially if you are female?
The book ‘American Psycho’ by Bret Easton Ellis is a prime example of what I think to be a brilliant piece of literature and yet the feminists hate it. They even tried to shut the filming of it down, but it went ahead due to some say the fact that the director was a female. Yes it contains degrading images of women being ripped to shreds, but the reason why I have an appreciation for it was the whole story. ‘Patrick Bateman’ who is the main character is obsessed with himself, wealthy, intelligent, successful in his career and bored out of his brains. His boredom makes him do very bad things that only people in his situation could get away with.
Yes I am getting to the body with this story! His extreme obsession with the body beautiful is the only thing that he cares about and what he does with women only glorifies and feeds his ego and nobody stops him.
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