Category — *Women in Absentia

Continued from I am Jack’s Vagina: Marla Singer of Fight Club. WARNING: This will probably make no sense unless you read Part 1 first, and it will contain “spoilers” for the movie. Go ahead and read it …

I wrote a while back that the film Fight Club said quite a lot about gender, despite having only one female character. Today I’m going to write about that female character: Marla Singer.

First, I need to note that …

Fight Club may seem an odd choice: it’s got one female character, and it’s all about a man’s search for identity in the form of manhood in a world of men. But one line of dialog says it all:A …