I'm saying that the movie's construction of masculinity is a sin both of omission and comission, that it's pretending that middle-class heterosexual white male masculinity, with its obsession with material objects and its obsession with its own perceived effeminacy, is the only kind of masculinity there is.
The quality of stridency with which this message is presented, and the clarity with which negative consequences are made visible though not played up, lead me to think that reading Fight Club [ the film ] as actually supporting that construction of masculinity is akin to reading Jonathan Swift as a serious advocate of population-control through eating babies.
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Date: 2006-11-15 08:09 pm (UTC)The quality of stridency with which this message is presented, and the clarity with which negative consequences are made visible though not played up, lead me to think that reading Fight Club [ the film ] as actually supporting that construction of masculinity is akin to reading Jonathan Swift as a serious advocate of population-control through eating babies.