I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. 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 shit 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 is 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. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
I've flipped back and forth on this movie. A year or so ago I thought it was reactionary fanfic for right wing terrorist. Now I wish I could organize my comrades half as well as my man Tyler
I think that's part of the big problem with Fight Club, by mashing so much legitimate greivance and effective strategy into Durden, it glamorizes his shittiness to people who don't understand that it's satire, or if you do understand that it's satire, it delegitimizes a lot of criticism and methodology by having it attached to this total prick.
yeah if durden had been a feminist he'd have been badically a kinky maoist. I don't think i remember him saying any homophobic shit, but i haven't watched it in a long time and the last time I did was with a vibrator so i was mostly just paying attention to brad pitts body and meat loaf
Yeah, it was jared. Not sure. They call him beautiful and he was blonde, but otherwise don't remember anything about the character that stands out as gay coded. So :shrug:
I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. 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 shit 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 is 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. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
I've flipped back and forth on this movie. A year or so ago I thought it was reactionary fanfic for right wing terrorist. Now I wish I could organize my comrades half as well as my man Tyler
I think that's part of the big problem with Fight Club, by mashing so much legitimate greivance and effective strategy into Durden, it glamorizes his shittiness to people who don't understand that it's satire, or if you do understand that it's satire, it delegitimizes a lot of criticism and methodology by having it attached to this total prick.
How was he right wing? He blew up the credit card companies.
He was def sexist tho so maybe that's what you mean. Yeah actually, huge misogynist.
Yeah, I think that's the part of the movie that made me think it was right wing reactionary nonsense. That and just being a lib at the time
yeah if durden had been a feminist he'd have been badically a kinky maoist. I don't think i remember him saying any homophobic shit, but i haven't watched it in a long time and the last time I did was with a vibrator so i was mostly just paying attention to brad pitts body and meat loaf
Didn't he beat the gay coded guy to a bloody pulp? Or am I reading too much into that?
jared leto? was he supposed to be?
Yeah, it was jared. Not sure. They call him beautiful and he was blonde, but otherwise don't remember anything about the character that stands out as gay coded. So :shrug:
could just be toxic masculine stuff not wanting to be a “pretty boy” dork and wanting to be a tough rough man
Yeah, that's definitely the surface level read. Not like Fight Club was otherwise subtle
yeah i know it is, I just don’t see the gay coded stuff necessarily is all.
Fair
Reading too much into that. He honored Meat Loaf who was clearly bear coded.
Also Tyler Durden is bisexual. I’ve decided this because he’s hot and a fictional character I can project lust upon.