Recently, Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson has been popping up in media all over the world.
Who is Peterson?
He's a clinical psychologist and a much cited expert in creativity in individuals.
He got his first taste of fame after he pitched a tantrum over Canadian legislation meant to promote the use of preferred pronouns with trans people.
The legislation apparently failed to take into account Jordan Peterson's God-given right to pretend that trans people are fakes who are only seeking attention.
Later, Peterson said he might consider using a preferred pronoun if a trans person were to ask him nicely (preferably on bended knee with a hand across their heart and using the term "my liege.")
He's a hero to frustrated young white men who are afraid women and minorities are going to take away the privileges they've never had to work for.
He once called Disney's Frozen "propaganda" because it dared to have a strong female lead who isn't married off at the end.
He denies the experiences of women and trans individuals so he can redirect the conversation to the true victims; white dudes.
He claims great bogeymen known as postmodernist neo Marxists are trying to undermine Western Civilization and the "natural order" of things. The natural order of things is men being manly men who control everything while women stay silent and home bound.
The kind of masculinity he promotes requires a femininity that is nonthreatening and easily dominated. In order for men to succeed, women must fail.
He recently wrote a little folksy tome called "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" (Alternative title:"Chicken Soup for the Soul, eh?") In it he extols the virtue of "standing up straight with your shoulders back" and petting street cats.
It may seem like harmless life coach stuff but it's so much more than that.
The book basically erases structural violence and the existence of the patriarchy and puts the onus on individuals to fix themselves. It smacks of the bootstraps argument well off people use to throw shade at the poor.
His view on posture also brings out his odd admiration of lobsters.
Zack Beauchamp of Vox writes:
"This is classic Peterson: He loves to take stylized facts about the animal kingdom and draw a one-to-one analogy to human behavior. It also has political implications: He argues that because we evolved from lower creatures like lobsters, we inherited dominance structures from them. Inequalities of various kinds aren't wrong; they're natural."
As we've seen time and again on National Geographic Explorer, the humble lobster often rises up from the muck of the seabed, straightens its arthropodic exoskeleton, adjusts its tiny fedora and marches off to exert its terrible will on the lesser lobsters.
Tapping into the outrage of young men who feel they've been robbed of their dues has been profitable for Peterson. People on the internet give him money to keep posting You Tube videos about how feminists and Social Justice Warriors are ruining the world.
Like Trump, he's attracted followers who admire him for his overt misogyny and Islamophobia. Unlike Trump, Peterson has impressive degrees and academic titles. This makes certain people view his theories as legitimate and has led to several fawning profiles.
Others aren't fooled.
A writer for the Los Angeles Review of Books referred to Peterson as, "A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits" while journalist Tabatha Southey called him the "stupid man's smart person."
Pankaj Mishra of the New York Times wrote:
Closer examination, however, reveals Peterson's ageless insights as a typical, if not archetypal product of our own times: right-wing pieties seductively mythologized for our current lost generations."
When Peterson discovered Mishra's criticism he responded calmly and rationally by calling him a "sanctimonious prick" and saying he would slap him if they were in the same room.
Real men slap other men when words fail them.
Alpha lobsters bitch slap each other all the time to settle disputes. It's science.
Like the great edgelord Milo Yiannopoulos before him, Peterson days in the public eye are likely numbered.
I'm betting his fragile ego and tendency to weigh in when he's out of his depth will eventually lead to a spectacular public meltdown.
Maybe then someone will send him a copy of "12 Rules for Life."
Doctor, heal thyself, etc.
Who is Peterson?
He's a clinical psychologist and a much cited expert in creativity in individuals.
He got his first taste of fame after he pitched a tantrum over Canadian legislation meant to promote the use of preferred pronouns with trans people.
The legislation apparently failed to take into account Jordan Peterson's God-given right to pretend that trans people are fakes who are only seeking attention.
Later, Peterson said he might consider using a preferred pronoun if a trans person were to ask him nicely (preferably on bended knee with a hand across their heart and using the term "my liege.")
He's a hero to frustrated young white men who are afraid women and minorities are going to take away the privileges they've never had to work for.
He once called Disney's Frozen "propaganda" because it dared to have a strong female lead who isn't married off at the end.
He denies the experiences of women and trans individuals so he can redirect the conversation to the true victims; white dudes.
He claims great bogeymen known as postmodernist neo Marxists are trying to undermine Western Civilization and the "natural order" of things. The natural order of things is men being manly men who control everything while women stay silent and home bound.
The kind of masculinity he promotes requires a femininity that is nonthreatening and easily dominated. In order for men to succeed, women must fail.
He recently wrote a little folksy tome called "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" (Alternative title:"Chicken Soup for the Soul, eh?") In it he extols the virtue of "standing up straight with your shoulders back" and petting street cats.
It may seem like harmless life coach stuff but it's so much more than that.
The book basically erases structural violence and the existence of the patriarchy and puts the onus on individuals to fix themselves. It smacks of the bootstraps argument well off people use to throw shade at the poor.
His view on posture also brings out his odd admiration of lobsters.
Zack Beauchamp of Vox writes:
"This is classic Peterson: He loves to take stylized facts about the animal kingdom and draw a one-to-one analogy to human behavior. It also has political implications: He argues that because we evolved from lower creatures like lobsters, we inherited dominance structures from them. Inequalities of various kinds aren't wrong; they're natural."
As we've seen time and again on National Geographic Explorer, the humble lobster often rises up from the muck of the seabed, straightens its arthropodic exoskeleton, adjusts its tiny fedora and marches off to exert its terrible will on the lesser lobsters.
Tapping into the outrage of young men who feel they've been robbed of their dues has been profitable for Peterson. People on the internet give him money to keep posting You Tube videos about how feminists and Social Justice Warriors are ruining the world.
Like Trump, he's attracted followers who admire him for his overt misogyny and Islamophobia. Unlike Trump, Peterson has impressive degrees and academic titles. This makes certain people view his theories as legitimate and has led to several fawning profiles.
Others aren't fooled.
A writer for the Los Angeles Review of Books referred to Peterson as, "A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits" while journalist Tabatha Southey called him the "stupid man's smart person."
Pankaj Mishra of the New York Times wrote:
Closer examination, however, reveals Peterson's ageless insights as a typical, if not archetypal product of our own times: right-wing pieties seductively mythologized for our current lost generations."
When Peterson discovered Mishra's criticism he responded calmly and rationally by calling him a "sanctimonious prick" and saying he would slap him if they were in the same room.
Real men slap other men when words fail them.
Alpha lobsters bitch slap each other all the time to settle disputes. It's science.
Like the great edgelord Milo Yiannopoulos before him, Peterson days in the public eye are likely numbered.
I'm betting his fragile ego and tendency to weigh in when he's out of his depth will eventually lead to a spectacular public meltdown.
Maybe then someone will send him a copy of "12 Rules for Life."
Doctor, heal thyself, etc.
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