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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 authorwho 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 failuresisn'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.
Link to tweet
https://www.comicsands.com/jordan-peterson-cry-olivia-wilde-2658371813.html
hatrack
(59,587 posts). . . assuring her that he will be gentle.
A HERETIC I AM
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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 hes 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)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)Hard to feel sorry for grown men who can't get laid. I mean if anything, hookers are still in business.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)betsuni
(25,525 posts)Who do these men think they are?
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,023 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,765 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,501 posts)crazy ass treatments he put himself through. Now he's a full blown lunatic v
Brenda
(1,054 posts)Didn't hear that story.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,501 posts)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)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)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)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.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)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.