Time distorts things
Have you seen the movie The Rules of Attraction ? It's a movie that came out in 2002 and is based on a book written by the same author as American Psycho. Different feel, very same satirical humor. Anyhow, it starts out at a scene at a party and the narrator is talking about different people at his college. The scene flashes on Jessica Biel's character drunkenly going into a hotel room with the football team, alluding to a "consensual" train. The narrator goes on to say how she's now a senator's wife, "funny how time distorts things". A lot of trends that are popular these days are call-backs to things that used to be popular when I was in high school. Most of the time, those things are light and fluffy and taken at face value. Things get a little dangerous though when call backs are viewed through the cancel culture, neo-political correct society we live in today, Courtney Love's "kinderwhore" look, mid-90s. I fell down a rabbit...