 According to the reviewers, Jack from "Fight Club" and Brandon Teena from "Boys Don't Cry" share the following:
Jack and Bob subscribe to a new form of male bonding: They cling to each other and sob. When Jack's apartment mysteriously explodes--along with his carefully chosen IKEA furniture--he moves into Tyler's squalid warehouse and helps to found a new religion: Fight Club, in which young males gather after hours in the basement of a nightclub to pound one another (and be pounded) to a bloody pulp. Yes, the mixture of Johnny Rotten, Jake La Motta, and Jesus is unique; and the Faludi-esque emasculation themes are more explicit. "We are a generation of men raised by women," Tyler announces, and adds, "If our fathers bail, what does that tell you about God?"
 A fascination with masculinity
 An unsupportive family  An addictive personality  A fascination with masculinity  A sleep disorder