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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 08:42 PM Oct 2022

Far-Right Author Breaks Down In Tears After Olivia Wilde Calls Him A 'Hero To The Incel Community'

At this point, Canadian psychologist and self-help author Jordan Peterson, beloved by the alt-right, is practically the patron saint of White cisgender heternormative male grievance.

After being banned from Twitter over the summer for making transphobic comments about actor Elliot Page, the author—who has made hay by portraying liberals and social justice activists as "snowflakes"—cast himself as a free-speech martyr under attack from "woke" forces.

So bursting into tears because actor and director Olivia Wilde called him a "hero" to "incels"— "involuntary celibates," the online community that blames women for their inability to be attractive and believe women should be punished for their failures—isn't exactly a turn of events you'd expect from someone with so much bluster.

But that's what happened when fellow conservative mouthpiece Piers Morgan revealed Wilde's take to Peterson on a recent episode of his show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, as seen below.




https://www.comicsands.com/jordan-peterson-cry-olivia-wilde-2658371813.html
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Far-Right Author Breaks Down In Tears After Olivia Wilde Calls Him A 'Hero To The Incel Community' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2022 OP
Peterson is the intellectual equivalent of an ant climbing a cow's leg . . . . hatrack Oct 2022 #1
I like that analogy. A HERETIC I AM Oct 2022 #11
:) As said. Classic unbalanced-intellectual ant. Hortensis Oct 2022 #18
Guess that came too close to home. brush Oct 2022 #2
Someone call a waaaaahmbulence! sakabatou Oct 2022 #3
But being lonely and not getting any encouragement is LIFE. betsuni Oct 2022 #4
At least they're cleaning their rooms and showering.... AZSkiffyGeek Oct 2022 #5
One can only hope. A HERETIC I AM Oct 2022 #12
She forgot to include snowflake in her comment nt Javaman Oct 2022 #6
Another "stable genius". Midnight Writer Oct 2022 #7
Prof. Kermit Voice was already pretty unhinged before going to Russia for those Carlitos Brigante Oct 2022 #8
What treatments? Brenda Oct 2022 #13
See link below. 2 things I'll add. One, I should've said allegedly. And two Carlitos Brigante Oct 2022 #14
Thanks for the link Brenda Oct 2022 #15
Any time. I'm sorry to hear about your sister. Yeah, these people are totally Carlitos Brigante Oct 2022 #16
Thank you, it was an eye-opener about hospitals. Brenda Oct 2022 #17
K&R - his scant minutes that filtered down to me set off my Repulsed Reflex UTUSN Oct 2022 #9
The complaint by incels is not that women are picky. It's that women don't treat sex as a commodity. DetlefK Oct 2022 #10
Apparently, I should know who Olivia Wilde is to understand the context.n/t msfiddlestix Oct 2022 #19

hatrack

(59,587 posts)
1. Peterson is the intellectual equivalent of an ant climbing a cow's leg . . . .
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 08:46 PM
Oct 2022

. . . assuring her that he will be gentle.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,368 posts)
11. I like that analogy.
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 07:41 AM
Oct 2022

Last edited Sun Oct 9, 2022, 04:53 PM - Edit history (1)

He seems to me to be the type who takes himself WAY too seriously and thinks he is the smartest guy, not only in this room, but in EVERY room.

But he’s not, not by a long shot.

He makes up words or adds syllables to common words to make himself sound intellectual, when the fact is, most of what he spews is just nonsensical gobbledegook couched in his skewed vision of what a society should be like.

An ant climbing a cows leg indeed.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. :) As said. Classic unbalanced-intellectual ant.
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 11:00 AM
Oct 2022

A lot of these wise ones, like Peterson, are all over the place ideologically -- proof of their intellectual range. And lack of stability as their perambulations continue.

Unfortunately, there's always a ready market in those seeking a reassuringly profound-sounding rationale for what they already chose to believe.

brush

(53,778 posts)
2. Guess that came too close to home.
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 08:50 PM
Oct 2022

Hard to feel sorry for grown men who can't get laid. I mean if anything, hookers are still in business.

Carlitos Brigante

(26,501 posts)
8. Prof. Kermit Voice was already pretty unhinged before going to Russia for those
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 09:48 PM
Oct 2022

crazy ass treatments he put himself through. Now he's a full blown lunatic v

Carlitos Brigante

(26,501 posts)
14. See link below. 2 things I'll add. One, I should've said allegedly. And two
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 09:34 AM
Oct 2022

I don't mean this to mock addiction. Which is a very serious thing. But "Mr. I'll tell you how to live your life" apparently got addicted yo prescribed medication. For whatever reason he skipped treatment in North America. Then went to Russia and was put on a medically induced coma, against all the advice given to him and his family. But I also use "allegedly" because I think him and his daughter are lying grifters and I don't know if I believe the story. Anyway, here you go:

https://newrepublic.com/article/156829/happened-jordan-peterson

Brenda

(1,054 posts)
15. Thanks for the link
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 09:46 AM
Oct 2022

I'll try to finish it, ugh. My sister in law died from C. Diff. so right off the bat reading that his daughter cured herself of this superbug with steak and water is bullshit.

Seems these types are always hypocrites and secret druggies.

Carlitos Brigante

(26,501 posts)
16. Any time. I'm sorry to hear about your sister. Yeah, these people are totally
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 09:56 AM
Oct 2022

full of shit. I remember not hearing his name for a while. Thinking maybe he went away after being publicly humiliated in public by actual intelectuals. But was I wrong. He's back now. And more "grifter-y" than ever. Don't even get me started on the weird, creepy ass book cover he put out with his con-woman daughter.

Brenda

(1,054 posts)
17. Thank you, it was an eye-opener about hospitals.
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 10:11 AM
Oct 2022

Yeah, I haven't seen his name in a long time either so thanks for reminding me of this disgusting creature.
Nope, not gonna look for the book cover. And a daughter that agrees with him? She sounds like a masochist.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
10. The complaint by incels is not that women are picky. It's that women don't treat sex as a commodity.
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 07:33 AM
Oct 2022

The incel mindset is that you get sex in exchange for fulfilling certain conditions: If a man looks a certain way, behaves in a certain way, dresses a certain way, owns certain luxury-products, then women will respond to his romantic advances and will agree to have sex with him.

THAT IS THE DEAL.

Fulfill the conditions and you get sex. Except that some women have the audacity to not have sex with men who CLEARLY fulfill these conditions. This can only mean that men are being oppressed by evil women.



This is the incel-mindset: That evil women refuse to give men the sexual intercourse they are entitled to.

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