Yeah for sure
They also do that to the narrator. And if she's not real they're pretending she is for his benefit
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Which leads us to the same ultimate conclusion where people are indulging the fantasy of a person with a hallucination
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yeah a big logistical question is how aware they are of Tyler's split personality
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whether the whole "You said you'd say that" thing is them being comically obedient or they actually get what's going on
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keeping in mind in "the real world" Fight Club started bc ppl were fascinated by watching "Tyler" punch himself in the face
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I realized how to articulate this at the point where my students were like "isn't it about mental illness not gender?"
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And I was like "sort of but then you'd have to ask yourself why this person made up a story about an imaginary MRA"
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And I suggested question of how deep in the story is real is exactly the same as "when would I back away slowly from Tyler"
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yeah on a meta level the story is about how Tyler himself has been massaged by the movie's framing to be more appealing
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it's like the self-reinforcing nature of how people in cults deify cult leaders to justify being in the cult
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the Space Monkeys want Tyler to be this godlike Adonis when (in universe) he's just this creepy nerd
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