• garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I think men would misunderstand the message of fight club even more now and it would become a white supremacist hit.

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        11 hours ago

        It was a film targeted towards men and was specifically about toxic masculinity. So in this case, yes I absolutely meant men. Have you seen it?

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          2 hours ago

          You’re telling me there’s symbolism in the scene where he cries in the bosom of a man with big boobs? Get atta here

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          8 hours ago

          OP comic is much closer to what movie is about. It is a broad anarchist theme. Focusing on the men’s group organization is an extremely narrow view.

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            5 hours ago

            Absolutely, but the way that it is broadly known to be misunderstood is in its commentary about toxic masculinity.

            People come away thinking “I should start a fight club” and those people, as the movie, are not generally women. Because (precisely the point of the movie) men are not taught how to deal with emotions in a healthy way in our society.

            This is an ongoing issue of society, its what’s led to the male loneliness epidemic, and to point that out is not sexist. we need to address it and correct it.

            Obviously the issue is now beyond the point of making a super cool satirical movie about it and its connections to consumerism and the broad failures of our capitalist hellscape.

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          8 hours ago

          Your comment wasn’t about the target audience of the movie but about who misunderstood it.

          It is a bit crazy to complain about toxic masculinity (a consequence of sexism) by making sexist comments.