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And then Alpha male and Beta Male humped in the bathroom (slrpnk.net)

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[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 81 points 6 days ago

lol is that a satire account? or did this chode really choose tyler durden, a fictional character's imaginary friend (the guy he wishes he was) as his profile pic?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 69 points 6 days ago

A lot of people didn't understand the movie.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

Which is ironic, because it predicts toxic masculinity 20 years before it became a widespread phenomenon. Andrew Tate is basically Tyler Durden/the narrator in real life.

[-] nyamlae@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

it predicts toxic masculinity 20 years before it became a widespread phenomenon

20 years before it became a widespread phenomenon

err... toxic masculinity has been mainstream since the beginning of recorded history.

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Toxic masculinity has existed for all of recorded human history. Hell, the whole fight club mentality in the movie was basically adults having the same kind of fight culture as high schoolers having fights after school to prove how tough they were to themselves and others.

It did do an excellent job of predicting internet based toxic masculinity, or maybe it was an inspiration for those that didn't understand the point of the movie.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 7 points 6 days ago

What do you mean Marla wasn't real? They would totally let a female into the testicular cancer meetings ...

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Russia has been strongly suspected to use Tyler Durden in its influence operations to appeal to the US mainstream-to-far right.

All of Zero Hedge’s posts are written under the nom de plume of “Tyler Durden,” the anti-establishment character played by Brad Pitt in the film Fight Club. “We believe that not only should you be comfortable with anonymous speech,” Zero Hedge contends in its “manifesto,” “but that you should be suspicious of any speech that isn’t.” For whatever reason, people seem to go along with this, and it’s a strange sight to see the name of a psychopathic character in a Chuck Palahniuk novel cited as a source in a Congressional Research Service report and a scholarly law review article, or introduced as a guest on Bloomberg radio.

Neither Zero Hedge’s anonymity nor its Bulgarian connections and pro-Kremlin views have turned off some financially savvy readers.

[-] uriel238 3 points 6 days ago

Also Chuck Palahniuk wasn't out to his audience yet, which underlies the UST-as-fraternity that appears between the two characters.

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