"}\n\nWhen people call you a \u201csnowflake\u201d just remember they\u2019re quoting Fight Club, a satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society, and become radicalized, and that Tyler Durden isn\u2019t the hero but a personification of the main character\u2019s mental illness, and that his \u201csnowflake\u201d speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people.
\nSo basically people who say \u201csnowflake\u201d as an insult are quoting a domestic terrorist who blows up skyscrapers because he\u2019s insecure about how good he is in bed.
\nThe thing about this is \u2013 to write a good satire you need to make it close to reality (in some ways, to some extent). \u00a0Which means you run the risk of creating something that your targets still find appealing.
Every other argument about the quality of Fight Club aside, I think it\u2019s an important movie because it captured a thing that\u2019s out there, which appeals to a certain large subsection of the male population. \u00a0The fact that this subsection celebrates an ambivalent-at-best depiction of the thing suggests that there wasn\u2019t anything else out there crystalizing the same thing with as much accuracy \u2013 if there were more unambiguously positive depictions of the thing, you\u2019d think their popularity would have swamped Fight Club\u2019s.
Yeah, maybe it\u2019s making fun of guys who like the thing (and maybe without their knowledge), but it also revealed that there are a lot\u00a0of those guys, and showed us exactly what it is that they like. \u00a0(I\u2019m not saying there weren\u2019t other movies about masculinity; as I said, FC crystalized something more specific.) \u00a0Even if you think the movie\u2019s a satire, the humor of\u00a0\u201cthese guys misinterpreted a movie, lol owned\u201d\u00a0is outweighed for me by the gravity of the realization \u201cthese guys exist, they aren\u2019t going away, and they do\u00a0unironically want the thing.\u201c \u00a0Feels like they get the last laugh, here.