ABSTRACT
The foregoing oratory, uttered by Hollywood actor Brad Pitt cast as the dark overlord of an underground fight club, epitomizes a number of recent concerns regarding the place of young men in Western society. In mainstream media and popular culture, it is tempting to believe that masculinities are in “crisis.” Stripped of an industrial heritage and shorn of the heroic accolades attributed to men of war, contemporary masculinities appear as displaced subjectivities, alienated and ridden with insecurity about their purpose and role.
