Agree. Fatal Attraction presented someone with BPD to one of the worst extremes possible. Not so much with severity, though it certainly was severe, but the worst thing that can happen to you if you meet someone with it. Several with this disorder have it as a result of emotional trauma as a child.
A problem here is there hasn't been any good portrayals of it in television shows or film, and people draw over to Fatal Attraction as a type of default.
The only good portrayal of it that I can think of from a character most people would feel has a more positive portrayal is Starbuck in the new Battlestar Galactica. A problem there is that it's a niche show that most people didn't watch, and they only focused on her borderline PD in a few episodes.
Another problem here is that most residents first encounter borderline PD is inpatient. Borderlines that make it to inpatient tend to be worse ones. There are many people with this disorder that are functioning in society and have it on a weaker extreme. If more doctors had their first and main exposure to someone with it in outpatient, I'd think their perspectives would be more positive. Further, most doctors aren't trained in DBT, the accepted form of treatment for this disorder, and this just ups the frustration with this disorder that is wrongfully taken out on the patient. Another problem is frequent flyer borderlines to the ER and inpatient should be in a 24-hour DBT ACT team where the team can divert and prevent them from going to the hospital in the first place. Most areas don't have this, let alone even outpatient DBT. There's one in my area but only because a doctorate level grad student in counseling made one as her thesis project and it's stuck since then.
