Fight Club’s theme of “fight IKEA-shopping yuppiedom through the power of class-inflected masculine redemptive violence direct action” made so much more sense when I realized it specifically came out of 90s downtown Portland.
For that matter, Palahnuik being gay probably explains how it’s about bros using a woman as a prop to deepening their relationship and building an all-male brotherhood where they construct intricate rituals to touch the skin of other men as a way to call attention to the power and potential of their male bodies
From the perspective of a trans era the way it treated “growing breasts under the influence of pharmaceuticals” and “surgically removing the penis and testicles” is worth meditating on too, I suppose
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