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http://www.gradesaver.com/fight-club-novel/study-guide/afterword-by-chuck-palahniuk Quote:Palahniuk reflects on how his short story went on to become a novel, and then a film. He mentions how the look of Fight Club film was appropriated by fashion icons like Donatella Versace and how Dolce Gabbana launched a men’s line that copied Tyler Durden’s wardrobe in the film. Tyler Durden himself became a shorthand for rebellion.
Actual fight clubs were discovered in universities and in the basements of Mormon churches… The author received photographs from strangers with bruised and battered faces, evidence of their own fight clubs. Really? I’m not sure that a) most of our churches have basements – maybe they mean cultural halls? – and b) Mormon men are probably a good deal less threatened in their masculinity than many other men in American society… apart from in terms of the “nesting instinct” mentioned in the book.
Anyone else hear of Mormon fight clubs set up in the wake of the book and film?
Stupid rumors – just like a kidnapped, Protestant, polygamous bride jumping from the SLC temple window into the Great Salt Lake and swimming to her freedom. :crazy: 🙄 My grandparent’s ward, in Utah, had a small Church basement, which held a couple of classrooms used for Priesthood. The only reference I could find to a mormon fightclub happening at church was from 2002.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/11/news/mn-37348 It’s an exaggerated, cherry-picked reference, used solely for shock-value. Thank you internet.
Old Timer wrote:
Stupid rumors – just like a kidnapped, Protestant, polygamous bride jumping from the SLC temple window into the Great Salt Lake and swimming to her freedom.:crazy: 🙄
Surely floating? I do know the temple is nowhere near the lake though!
dande48 wrote:
My grandparent’s ward, in Utah, had a small Church basement, which held a couple of classrooms used for Priesthood.The only reference I could find to a mormon fightclub happening at church was from 2002.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/11/news/mn-37348 It’s an exaggerated, cherry-picked reference, used solely for shock-value. Thank you internet.
Ah that sounds more convincing. When they say gym, they probably mean cultural hall since more sport than culture occurs there.
“Mormon Fight Clubs” sounds like Thursday night pickup basketball games in the “cultural hall”. Heber13 wrote:
“Mormon Fight Clubs” sounds like Thursday night pickup basketball games in the “cultural hall”.
😆 Things getting out of hand.SamBee wrote:
Heber13 wrote:
“Mormon Fight Clubs” sounds like Thursday night pickup basketball games in the “cultural hall”.
😆 Things getting out of hand.
They sometimes do…in all seriousness…I came home with a swollen ankle and a black eye…took an elbow in the eye. Sometimes it feels like guys are playing church ball as if there is a million dollar contract tied to results
:crazy: …it’s just basketball!? Is it because mormons have so many other callings and commitments and driven by goals to do your best…they don’t know how to turn off the competitive nature to just play a game? Everything has to be about winning all the time?I’ve played basketball, volleyball, soccer and badminton with church members – I think volleyball was the toughest including yes, elbows and hands in the face plus few of us knew the rules. Soccer was surprisingly chilled – much better atmosphere than a lot of games I’ve been at, since soccer can get scary. We were playing eleven-a-side on a five-a-side pitch so that was interesting.
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