Gay fight club
shot it all in cinemascope
“You are not extraordinary . You're not a stunning and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying biological matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
Fight Club is the epitome of a filmbro movie. Other than Marla, it features no women, and tells a story about men. It’s the movie that the weird guys who don’t comprehend how to talk to women in college see. But it’s also my favourite movie, and my favourite book too. While the novel was written by a (gay) male, Chuck Palahniuk, and the movie was directed by a man (who I do believe understood the story and turned it into one of the best book-to-movie adaptations of all time), I consider that there is something very simple that stops male viewers from fully understanding what Fight Club really is - their masculinity.
I’ve seen Fight Club fifteen times since I turned thirteen. I own two copies of it on DVD and one copy on VHS (my mom gave me a weird look when I bought it, but hey, in my defence, it was only a dollar!) and I’ve spent much time thinking about this movie. I’ve got two copies of the book. So I reflect I can
I got my daily dose of humility today.
Fight Club is gay.
I had seen the movie, scan the book, and heard the theory, and still dismissed it as nonsense. Clearly, it was about masculinity! About fighting, about men in a feminized world.
In my defense, I hadn’t known that Palahniuk himself was gay at the time, but still, it should hold been obvious, and I missed it.
Of all the words of tongue and pen,
The saddest: Vox was right again…
If you’re skeptical, you really have to see the video to get why. The secret is in the language, and Vox goes through the illustrative quotes that demonstrate the case. But Bob’s bitch-tits and hugging, the gun-in-the-mouth opening, the protagonist’s antipathy towards women (Marla)… they all produce more sense through a different filter.
While this may destroy the book for some people, I find that it doesn’t for me. The point in identifying this metaphor isn’t to condemn the book, but to train yourself to see layered meaning in writing and in literature, and to peruse books — and people — superior. In my belief, it’s still an excellent book; in fact, if anything, it highlights
Ok here's my defense of Fight Club (complete and total spoilers)
I can't state I've been display enough on this forum lately to know its pulse on the feature Fight Club, which I love dearly and truly, still, even after having watched it very very recently.
And I won't fake it's not a weird dark edgy problem fest, that's part of what makes it so entertaining. But enjoy I got the vibe from people in my existence and the internet in general sometimes that like, liking Fight Club is how you inform someone is one of "the terrible ones" and I don't know, that hurts. Because I love this feature goddamn it. It did take me a very very long time to finally "get" it though, to be honest.
When I was a teen I loved Tyler Durden as a character (and let's be clear, still do) because he was this appealing philosophizing anarchist who was going to burn down all the bullshit and I couldn't figure out why he becomes the villain in the last third of the film. But also, at that day and until embarrassingly recently, I didn't properly understand Marla's role in the story. When the Narrator says "all of this has something to accomplish with a teen named Marla Singer" I didn't r
It’s Fight Club, But ‘Gay’
Spaces prefer boxing and mixed martial arts gyms haven’t always, historically, been the most hospitable to people in the LGBTQ community but Red Planet MMA, over on Broadway in Bushwick, has made itself especially open to prospective customers regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
In 2016, the gym’s head coach Mario Marin started getting petitioned by several of the gay fighters at the gym to begin dedicating a space at the gym for LGBTQ fighters and give them a small pocket of time each week to learn and teach kickboxing and muay thai. Marin said yes and that’s how the neighborhood’s “Gay Fight Club” was born.
“Giving people a big neon sign that says ‘Gays here, come learn fighting’ should at least help assuage a short-lived bit of that trepidation and adverse experiences where they tried to fight before,” said Daffodil Bisono, a trainer at Red Planet that’s been running its Gay Fight Club since 2021.
“With Gay Fight Club, I want it to be a community space. I want people to come in even to just manage emotions and obtain some physical activity,” said Bisono.
Bisono says they try to focu