As “pro-male” as the movie “Fight Club” is, why is pink soap one of the main things associated with the movie?
Does anyone know what this symbol stands for?
Tyler Durden made his money in the Paper Street Soap Company. He was making soap becauseit was a byproduct of the explosives he was making as part of Project Mayhem, which he could sell so he would have money to live on.
I understand that, but why was it pink?
Because his customers were mostly rich, bored females who got a kick out of paying way to much for “exclusive, hand made soap”. Pink would, I suppose appeal more to these women than most other colours.
Because Tyler sold it to boutiques whose customers were wealthy women – women who, in all likelihood, could also afford liposuction.
I haven’t seen the movie in a long time, but I think the pink soap originated from the movie poster and/or book cover. I don’t think you ever see the finished soap in the movie; if so, I don’t remember it being pink.
Yes, that’s what I’m referring to. I don’t think I’m explaining myself correctly.
I’m wondering does the pink soap refer to anything outside of the movie.
To the tension between masculinity and femininity?
It’s just a wild ass guess but could it be pink because pink is close to the colour of flesh?
No.
Perhaps a few specks of blood got into it from the lip run off (or is that all yellowish?)
Hmmm, while you’re at it, Fight Club fans, check out this old thread: What’s the final rule of Fight Club? 
The soap was pink because it was made of human fat - the “fat of the land” - stolen from lyposuction clinics. Tyler would make it and sell it back to the rich women who produced the base material. Kind of creepy, huh?
I think it’s also supposed to be a Holocaust reference.
Well, Tyler himself makes a refference to soap and burning witches, so the whole, “make people into soap” is a relevant theme. I think much of the point (Tylers point, anyway), is reducing people to something as simple as soap, trying to show that people have no inherent value.