The issue at the center of David Fincher's film, Fight Club, is not that of man's rebellion against a society of "men raised by women". This is a film that outwardly presents itself as promoting the resurrection of the "ultra-male," surreptitiously holding women responsible for the decay of manhood. However, the underlying truth of the film is not to resist the force of destruction that is "woman", or to resist her corruption of manhood, but to penetrate the apathy necessary to survive in an environment governed by desire commercial, not Need. In reality, Fight Club is a careful examination, through parody, of what it means to be a man; carefully examining the role of women in a society engaged in the race towards sexual homogeneity. Proponents of lesbian feminist theory and feminist theorists such as Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva would dismiss Fight Club as a mere validation of their conceptualized male, "phallocrat", for its sympathetic portrayal of the whiny, emasculated modern male, and his 'oppression' at the hands of a society that values ​​submission over independence (Kristeva 476). At the beginning of Fight Club, Jack, the protagonist is a disaffected corporate employee, another “slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.” His apartment reflects his personality, but not in the way he thinks: what his reliance on "smart furniture" does is reveal the commercially dependent worker bee for what he is. The film caricatured modernity, mocking our addiction to comfort and extravagance, while suggesting that, with the crack of motherhood (“nesting instinct”), masculinity is gone. Jack represents the decay of conceptualized masculinity; his society needs his intellect, not his back. Jack finds himself drawn in...... middle of the sheet ......lle: Florida State University Press, 1986. 309-320. Faludi, Susan. Stiffened: The Betrayal of the American Man. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1999.Fight Club. Dir. David Fincher. Perf. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1999. Giroux, Henry A. “Private Satisfactions and Public Unrest: Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Male Violence.” July 3, 2000. UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. April 19, 2009 http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/FightClubKristeva, Julia. “Women's time”. Adams, Hazard and Leroy Searle. Critical theory since 1965. Gainesville: Florida State University Press, 1986. 471-484. Wollstonecraft, Mary. “A vindication of women's rights”. Adams, Hazard and Leroy Searle. Critical theory starting from Plato. Third edition. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005. 442-446.