...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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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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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 he was obsessed, even - with Bob's breasts. Femininity he craved, but forgivable b/c involuntary
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yeah from this POV you can read a lot into how Narrator is more obsessed with Marla than Tyler
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Marla predates Tyler, the inciting incident of the whole story is Marla's appearance
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Narrator freaks out at Marla, rejects her, she disappears and suddenly Tyler is there
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and notably Tyler sexually dominates Marla but his other key trait is he does not give a shit about her
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the self-contradictory fantasy of intimately knowing all abt women but not being affected at all
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Tyler himself is interesting - he has "feminine" traits like dressing flamboyantly
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Narrator's weird manhood fetish is tied up in hyper-masculine shit like ignoring hygiene & appearance
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