I'm sure anyone who's looked up anything about the movie has seen the same top result feminist articles about it being a thoughless bro flick. If this were true and it was just the male equivalent of movies like mama Mia or bridesmaids, why do they feel the need to bash it with such conviction?

I was watching it recently and it hit me: it appeals to a worldview that most men secretly share, and promotes that it's okay to think that way.

In this sub, I think we agree that society actively tries to squash masculinity while promoting female nature no matter how destructive. Being men we are told masculinity is toxic and simply not acting androgynously makes women victims. Having masculine instincts and trying to live the perfect life of avarageness can feel like two separate personalities at odds with each other.

Look at how the female characters are represented in the movie, both major and minor. There's Chloe, a dying cancer patient who really only misses sex, and Marla, an all consuming "tumor" who has no thought behind any of her actions.

Of course in the end, the phantom of perfect masculinity (Tyler) is trying to destroy society, while society is trying to destroy the narrator (and project mayhem).

Feminists don't want to acknowledge that society and masculinity are at odds, they want to view it like they are liberating us from some evil learned behavior that's been forcibly passed through male lineage.