As far as I can tell the message of the movie is "consumerism is bad because it's emasculating and feminizing, real liberation can be found in ruthless hierarchies of masculine violence"

The only person I know who likes it IRL also has a tendency to complain about the "pussification of modern men"

  • Lilith [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Fight Club is a satirical novel written by a gay man about how all straight men want to do is secretly fuck in basements. Obvious critique of toxic masculinity and more homo than Top Gun

    The two main characters are obviously in a gay relationship until you find out he’s been jacking himself off. Multiple lines about not needing women and “maybe what we need now is no women at all”

    Fight Club is extremely gay. It is “ironically” misogynistic, although the author might actually hate women idk

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      yeah, you were never supposed to see Tyler as a good guy, and strangely it foretold a bunch of loser dork lost boys following their idea of a macho man around.

    • Ziege_Bock [any]
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      2 years ago

      I think this is a great post. Do you have any thoughts on how well, if at all, the movie adaptation coheres to its source material?

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      If sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken, what does it make you?