ext_8885 ([identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] truepenny 2006-11-15 08:52 pm (UTC)

Re: not to be a jerk, but...

No, actually, that was the first iteration of my attempts to articulate what disturbed me: "Why aren't women allowed to be angry, too?"

Because I don't agree with the (unstated and unexamined) assumption that only men would be drawn to Tyler's fight clubs. I don't think there's any reason--except narrative misogyny--that this should be a "men only" movement.

But the movie's construction of gender doesn't allow women to be fighters. Which is, you know, only one of the problems with its construction of gender, but I do think it's a major one.

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