Peaches Sits Down With Bret Easton Ellis

American writer Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho (1991), sits down with Peaches for a conversation that ranged from politics and activism to music and cultura at large. Here’s how he described their talk:

“PEACHES on THE BEE PODCAST: porn influencing cultural attitudes and female pop performers, Joss Whedon's feminism, Caitlyn Jenner as rich white privileged Republican, men's rights groups slamming Mad Max: Fury Road, CGI vs analog, pandering to a PC culture, women sexualising their image compared to men, ageism and sexism for women in pop music, refusing to write songs for Britney Spears, on Lady Gaga appropriating her style, different kinds of feminism and The Feminist Trap, Rose McGowan vs Carrie Brownstein, gender equality vs gender neutrality, on identifying as bisexual, the male g-spot, AIDS slamming the door on early-80s sexual experimentation, Cate Blanchett pretending to be a lesbian and the double standard of girl-on-girl sex vs dude-on-dude sex in the mainstream press, my transgender wake-up call: Thomas James Gabel becomes Laura Jane Grace, how do you stop people ridiculing an aging Madonna, the passive-aggressiveness of Canadians, making money in the music business, singing opera and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and talking about our favorite movie: Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise.”

— Bret Easton Ellis