Why do guys like self-inserting themselves as Patrick Bateman?

[Colon capital V]

>MAN I HECKING LOVE SELF-INSERTING AS A MENTALLY INSANE MAN WITH UNREPETEND ANGER ISSUES AND NO IMPULSE CONTROL!! HE IS SO LITERALLY ME!!!!!!! WOW, I LOVE SEEING MYSELF AS A RICH GUY WHO TOTALLY KILLED ALL THOSE NORMIES THAT TOTALLY WEREN'T ALL IN HIS HEAD AND HE DID IT IRL!!! I LOVE SEEING MYSELF AS MENTALLY ILL MEN WHO HATES SOCIETY!!! FUCK SOCIETY, WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!!!!!!

 

[Tablet County]

Because none of them have actually watched the movie and don't understand that Patrick is a pathetic, metrosexual narcissist instead of a gigachad who walks down hallways with his headphones on.

 

[Bargain Bin Laden]

Because it’s hip to be square.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

OP is a faggot.

 

[Not Really Here]

Because we always project into the protagonist, same way as children we replace the action figure with our own personality. We don't need to approve of a character, or even identify with them.

 

[Forsaken Wanderer]

I don't think a lot of them actually look at him as something you should aspire to be rather he is a look into the problems of the suit cubicle lifestyle and how everyone is turned into a carbon copy of each other, so much so that even a psychopath can't seem to leave an impression on anything (if he did indeed do anything as some say it was all just his wishful imagination that we are seeing).

 

[Lithuophile]

We don't. Women are obsessed with that movie, real men watch Tron: Legacy

 

[SNEED.EXE]

Wrong again, child. Most guys actually like to self-insert themselves as Patrick Tomlinson. Enjoy prison.

 

[KittyGremlin]

there are five dead hookers in my van

 

[Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog!]

That's a common misconception, most guys actually like to self-insert themselves as Patrick Tomlinson.

Noooooo, stalker child, it is you who self-inserts as Patrick Tomlinson. Enjoy maladptive daydreaming.

 

[dick brain]

Born to kill, forced to stonk.

Precivilization wasn't long ago evolutionarily speaking. A lot of us are Grant at Galena.

 

[mannic]

are you living under the rock lol. I've seen lots of guys pretending to be hitler

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

We do? Shieeet I didn't even know