Many naive young men buy into Peterson's shtick. Here's why they shouldn't: A man who says and writes illogical, unscientific, misogynistic and ahistorical drivel like those quoted below Is not worth my time, or yours:
“You know you can say, ‘Well isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine’ — well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything. If you change those basic categories, people wouldn’t be human anymore. They’d be something else. They’d be transhuman or something. We wouldn’t be able to talk to these new creatures.”
I don't see any regulating force for that, that terrible femininity. And it seems to be invading the culture and undermining the, the masculine power of the culture in a way that's, I think, fatal, I really do believe that.
—Jordan Peterson, femme fatale foe
"there is something that isn't quite right" with women who don't make having children their primary desire by age 30[61
(What would he think of Donna? What would Donna think of his view expressed here?)
asserted that women who don't want to be sexually harassed but wear makeup are "hypocritical".[65]
(this sounds like the Sayid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim brotherhood)
Vice Interviewer: women get raped quite a bit in colleges. Do you feel like that's a problem?
Peterson: I don't think that that's a very good way of stating the problem.
Vice Interviewer: I don't know how to more clearly state the problem, which is that women get raped in college.
Peterson: The problem is that sexual behavior in young people is complex and dysregulated and often fueled by alcohol. And so all sorts of things happen that people regret and don't like. And we have no idea what to do about it.
It's worth noting that Peterson has been accused of sexual assault three (!) times, by his own admission:[80]
He also believes that that feminists don't speak out against human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia due to an "unconscious wish for brutal male domination".[83]
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
—Jordan Peterson, history understander[85]
Peterson's intellectual ancestry: he's a dilettante devotee of the discredited Nazi collaborator Carl Jung: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/books/l-jung-s-anti-semitism-177490.html
who admitted in this Rubin Report conversation that he's a psychologist whose opinions are not grounded in specialized knowledge of history, economics or evolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PagNM_oxssE (min. 46:40: "I don't know anything about history.")
Here's the antidote: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
Buying into Peterson is like investing in a stock without channel checking it--a losing investment.
