does anyone ave te time to complete a quick interview ?

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I don't get it?

1) When you read fight club did it make you feel any differently about or make you recognize the pitfalls of the male gender roles.

2) Do you think identifying gender roles was one of Palahniuk’s goals when he wrote fight club?

3) Do you believe he portrayed gender roles as something that affects us in our daily lives?

4) Do you think it is possible to change ourselves so that we do not live with our gender role?

5) If yes, do you think that Palahniuk’s books are a possible way to accomplish that?
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Gender roles have never really been one of the things I thought about in regards to Fight Club. I guess that sort of answers all the questions.

Giving it thought, I can say I always related to the boys better than the girls, growing up I was a tomboy and over and over through my childhood my best friends were nearly always male. Then come to puberty, everyone begins to have a sense of sexual identity, and it becomes a lot harder to maintain friendships with guys because of sex as an option that might happen, and it starts to be on the guys minds particularly. Then grow all the way up and it is the same thing, sometimes more and other times less obvious. There becomes a need to think about and know where or what the bounderies are with everyone you meet whether you are male or female, most of the time I think it is subconscious, but there nonetheless.

What I'm getting at, is Marla's role in the story. She was pretty messed up and I think in many ways she could have been involved as a member of Fight Club, or even helped lead it, if it weren't for the fact thet her and Tyler began a sexual relationship, changing the dynamics of how they knew eachother emensly, and definitely making her role in the story very different than it could have been because of her gender.

1) When you read fight club did it make you feel any differently about or make you recognize the pitfalls of the male gender roles?

ANSWER: No. I didn't associate the book with gender roles, besides the bathtub conversation between 'Jack' and Tyler.

2) Do you think identifying gender roles was one of Palahniuk’s goals when he wrote fight club?

ANSWER: Maybe. I thought Chuck was more talking about the de-masculinizstion of the American male. This is very well stated with the whole 'IKEA nesting instinct' bit. Also, you can see this in the idea of Fight Club as a twelve step recovery group. Most of those want you to let your feelings out by crying and talking about you feelings, and Fight Club's goal was to let men vent in a more masculine way.

3) Do you believe he portrayed gender roles as something that affects us in our daily lives?

ANSWER: Could you rephrase the question?

4) Do you think it is possible to change ourselves so that we do not live with our gender role?

ANSWER: Again, I am not sure exactly what you are asking with this. Do I think you can consciously avoid gender roles? Sure. Look at butch lesbians, and super gay men.

5) If yes, do you think that Palahniuk’s books are a possible way to accomplish that?

ANSWER: Chuck Palahniuk writes satire. I don't think you should take his work too seriously. You can look at the anti-material message contained in Fight Club and apply it in some ways, but obviously not in the ways you see in this book. It's all about priorities. If I told you that fresh, organic food was more important to me than having my own apartment (because I couldn't afford both), and that I believe America has it's priorities backward in that regard you could obviously choose to agree, or not to. Because if I am serious or not is debatable, at least for you.

Thank yOu everyone who took the time to anwer this was really helpful !!!