Fight Club is a cult classic. It tells the story of a cynical anarchist who leads a group called Project Mayhem the goal of which is to bring down the capitalist establishment and set everyone free from their debt.
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It lives up to its popular motto which says “rules are meant to be broken” in a nutshell. But a lot of people who watch and have watched Fight Club don’t really have that as a take away. Instead, many of its male fans think it’s about masculinity and their entitlement.
“In the decade and a half or so after its release and reception as a cult classic, Fight Club has been embraced by the loose collection of radical online male communities (known as the ‘manosphere’) as a kind of gospel text,” Paulie Doyle wrote for Vice.
“The manosphere’s affinity for Fight Club stems from a common central, biologically deterministic claim: Men are naturally predisposed to being violent, dominant hunter gatherers, who, having found themselves domesticated by modern civilization, are now in a state of crisis.”
But that’s not what Fight Club is about. In her article, Rebecca Renner, who is a die-hard fan of the novel and film, sets things straight about the real point of Fight Club.
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Source: neatorama