What does this movie have to tell us about contemporary masculinity?

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Fight Club

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ITTY — 6 years ago(June 20, 2019 04:08 PM)

It's a major theme of the movie, with all this stuff about men growing tits and whatnot, but what is the message there?

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stinky sock — 6 years ago(June 20, 2019 04:11 PM)

What is your cup size, bb?

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Joc Spader — 6 years ago(June 20, 2019 04:25 PM)

Ed Norton is a FTM. Bitchtits Meatloaf is 33 in numerology. Brad came up from the pitt of hell…
Tell you what…When I send my ex-wife her money…you can lick the stamps.

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Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(June 20, 2019 07:11 PM)

I cannot remember. I have not even watched Fight Club in a several years.

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Jan_El_Senor — 6 years ago(June 20, 2019 07:30 PM)

Not sure there's a message, per-se. But the idea is that the narrator is just absorbed in consumerism and not really living his life.
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Woodyanders — 6 years ago(June 21, 2019 01:41 AM)

Men in the 1990's felt like they were emasculated by the corporate culture as well as by the fact that they couldn't fight in any wars to prove their masculinity, so they beat the living goddamn **** out of each other in a desperate attempt to remind themselves that they are still men.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

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SoFarDown — 6 years ago(June 21, 2019 02:19 AM)

I really didn't read much into masculinity, even after all these years. I always saw a message centered around materialism and the lies and control bred by a consumer-oriented society.
Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
Man, that's such a great monologue, isn't it? Not to say that I believe in it, mind you. I don't think anyone needs a war to recognize their potential, and Tyler Durden was all hubris and a lot of bull. He used his 'potential' to piss in people's food. But he wanted the world to stop chasing illusions created by corporations to make money.
He was just a charismatic a cult leader, using Fight Club to recruit foot soldiers for his cause. I don't know what it says about masculinity, but I'll tell you what I think about people in general;
We're all looking for a fight.
That's what I think makes the idea of Fight Club so compelling.
Die young and save yourself