I have this problem with a lot of media in general these days, both fiction and non-fiction. Although it's enjoying a huge cultural resurgence today among young

I have this problem with a lot of media in general these days, both fiction and non-fiction. Although it's enjoying a huge cultural resurgence today among young people, I feel like if American Psycho were to be made today, Bateman would have to be made comically evil with his faux liberal (to use the language of Bankman-Fried) 'woke shibboleths' left behind lest readers get mad that Bateman is being used as a tool to bash those beliefs -- ignoring the interesting commentary that Bateman actually uses it for status within his social circle and as a disguise for the person he really is. You see this a lot in coverage of very contentious issues too. I'm purposefully not naming any directly here (I'm thinking of at least 3 varied topics where this is particularly bad), but there are a lot of very complicated, hot-button issues where if you read any article that goes against the 'established' narrative in a nuanced way, there are usually several paragraphs of throat-clearing where the writer feels the need to go "We all know x is important, for reasons 1, 2, and 3".