god i know exactly what you mean i spend more time around that kind of person than i ever wanted to be (context: i am a film student)
i’m mostly able to retain my love of fight club because 1) it’s just REALLY GOOD OKAY 2) i’m utterly fascinated by gay fiction of this particular stripe (gay men writing about masculinity, personal identity, and self-hatred, preferably framed in a relatively surrealist manner)) and i’ll shove anything i can find directly into my awful maw; fight club just happens to hit every single one of my weak points
there’s a lot of good meaty subtext to fight club and a whole mess of subtext to unpack so it’s VERY fascinating to really delve into but of course i am saying that as a person who is balls deep in love for this work
i resent how bad Those Kind of Guys have ruined fight club every damn day of my life and hope that in another world fight club is recognized as the seminal gay lit masterpiece it should have been hailed as