Marla is a basically normal person, living at the margins of society, just like the members of Fight Club. But...
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Replying to @persenche @BootlegGirl
...they're vulnerable to subsuming their identity into a violent cult, where she isn't, despite her closeness to its epicenter.
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Replying to @persenche @BootlegGirl
So the question the movie asks is: why is Marla immune to the appeal of this cult? Is cult-identity-destruction a male thing?
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Replying to @persenche
Well yes, explicitly so. Because Tyler/Narrator are pretransition trans women trying to pretend not to be
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @persenche
yeah in this particular case this reading isn't a stretch at all
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he finds solace in hanging out at a support group for men who've had involuntary orchis for God's sake
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and pretending that bc he's one of them he has a culturally acceptable reason to hug and cry
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Also it's still not explained why Marla would be there
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @persenche
yeah the idea that no one would just kick her out doesn't actually make sense
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I mean Narrator is so insanely self obsessed he doesn't even think abt whether other ppl's actions make sense
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which is why he can wildly miss the various contextual clues that everyone "thinks he's Tyler"
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but I mean that also justifies a reading where almost all of the movie itself is a delusional dream
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I mean that's in the text too, that a symptom of Narrator's chronic insomnia is he can't tell the difference anymore
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