Barbie Improves Fight Club's Most Important Message

Published:Mon, 31 Jul 2023 / Source:https://www.cbr.com/barbie-fight-club-consumer-culture-toxic-masculinity/

At first glance, the summer's pop-culture queen Barbie has very little in common with David Fincher's Fight Club, the still-controversial adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel about a wage slave who slowly loses his mind. The former is a candy-colored social satire wrapped up in the ubiquitous children's doll. The latter is an apocalyptic meditation on the cost of toxic masculinity. Yet, the two are bound by a common target: a patriarchal consumer culture and the way it destroys people's identity.

Source:https://www.cbr.com/barbie-fight-club-consumer-culture-toxic-masculinity/

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