Current Events > Fight Club authoron his book becoming a bible for the incel movement

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/20/chuck-palahniuk-interview-adjustment-day-black-ethno-state-gay-parenting-incel-movement

lol i never realized that Fight Club was the incel movement bible.

Wasnt it a metaphor about being gay?

stupid idol of worship for a stupid movement

not the first example in history of a following basing its core beliefs on ridiculous fiction
several others have done it before and are still around fucking things up today...
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What does it feel like, suddenly being so financially precarious? Theres a long, silent look down. Its kind of nice, he decides.

Okay, that's how you can tell this dude has loads of fuckin' money.
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It's like how the red pill cult basically ignored every single thing about the source material and they reject reality outright in place of their own ones which make them the heroes even though they're anything but.
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toyota posted...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/20/chuck-palahniuk-interview-adjustment-day-black-ethno-state-gay-parenting-incel-movement

lol i never realized that Fight Club was the incel movement bible.

Wasnt it a metaphor about being gay?

I always saw much of the subtext as a warning about fascism.

Fight Club is the Holy grail for any "movement" of angry white guys.
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It's funny because it's like completely missing the point of the book. Doubt most of them have actually read it.
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COVxy posted...

It's funny because it's like completely missing the point of the book. Doubt most of them have actually read it.

People always miss the deeper meaning in any of these works. It's like people that watch Scorsese movies and want to imitate the lifestyles of the characters, despite the movie showing how destructive it is to them and their loved ones.
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Fony posted...

Fight Club is the Holy grail for any "movement" of angry white guys.

incel culture is not only white guys
plenty of minority guys bitchin about the same stuff all over youtube

its a gender issue, not a race issue
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First off, Fight Club was based on a book? >_>

And that book is the "bibles for incels?

Why lol
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COVxy posted...

It's funny because it's like completely missing the point of the book. Doubt most of them have actually read it.

IKR. The point of it is to tell people being an incel is bad.
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NeonOctopus posted...

First off, Fight Club was based on a book? >_>

I first found out when I critique the movie. Books nerds come rushing to defend the originality of it.
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Wow bud why does everyone go after incels punching down. They got a shitty outlook but what you gotta point and laugh go be the playa you are homie.

Veggeta X posted...

COVxy posted...

It's funny because it's like completely missing the point of the book. Doubt most of them have actually read it.

IKR. The point of it is to tell people being an incel is bad.

It's more specifically critical about modern western society's masculine construction and how toxic and destructive it is for the people who strive to achieve it and the people who have to deal with their collateral damage. It's also about our everyman protagonist coming to terms with the fact that he hates himself and is unable to self validate because he cannot embody the masculine ideal he idolizes. Worst still, he's deeply closeted. So even if he did, it would still always reject him.
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Why can't we go back to the days of men going their own ways and a tip of the fedora
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Projecting your un-aware insecurities is awful and this movie is the only thing some people have to express themselves even if it's an awful and an extreme rationality
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Palahniuk moves on to fresh ground, too. Following the uprising, the US self-segregates into white and black ethno-states, Caucasia and Blacktopia, while gays and lesbians of all ethnicities take over California, renaming it Gaysia

Lmao
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but I liked the neckbeard era
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catboy0_0 posted...

but I liked the neckbeard era

sorry for deleting, i didn't feel like i was contributing.

but i too miss the neckbeard era.

Veggeta X posted...

COVxy posted...

It's funny because it's like completely missing the point of the book. Doubt most of them have actually read it.

IKR. The point of it is to tell people being an incel is bad.

I don't think anyone thinks being an incel is good or desirable.

I mean, "involuntary" is right there in the word.
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I always felt it's less incel stuff and more MRA/MGTOW stuff, as well as the whole "duality of man" concept. But yeah, the book clearly portrays Tyler as not the person idolize or worship and pretty explicitly says "Tyler is wrong", where that message tends to get lost in the performances of Pitt and Norton.

The fact is the narrator himself is a massive hypocrite. He refuses to accept himself for who he is and the reality of life so he creates his own reality where he can be what he wants to be or what he theorizes is a "real man". It's just all bullshit layered on top of bullshit that ends with the bombs not going off and the narrator ending up in a psyche ward.

But more than anything I get pissed about how bastardized the term "snowflake" became as an insult.
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Fight Club is an excellent book.

Don't ruin it, you incel motherfuckers
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Please, guys. The book/movie is about people who aren't able to cope with 1st world problems.
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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

COVxy posted...

It's funny because it's like completely missing the point of the book. Doubt most of them have actually read it.

People always miss the deeper meaning in any of these works. It's like people that watch Scorsese movies and want to imitate the lifestyles of the characters, despite the movie showing how destructive it is to them and their loved ones.

Came into the topic just to say 'yeah, Fight Club made me want to be a woman-hating underground fascist the way Goodfellas made me want to be a mobster and Wolf of Wall Street made me want to be a stockbroker.'
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masterpug53 posted...

NinjaWarrior455 posted...

COVxy posted...

It's funny because it's like completely missing the point of the book. Doubt most of them have actually read it.

People always miss the deeper meaning in any of these works. It's like people that watch Scorsese movies and want to imitate the lifestyles of the characters, despite the movie showing how destructive it is to them and their loved ones.

Came into the topic just to say 'yeah, Fight Club made me want to be a woman-hating underground fascist the way Goodfellas made me want to be a mobster and Wolf of Wall Street made me want to be a stockbroker.'

I was at a screening where some bros cheered when Leo punched his wife and ripped up the cushion to get his stash.
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Reading fight club made me grow a swirly mustache and wear polo shirts all the time.

All you outcels are just jealous you can't be in with the cels.