So-called clinical psychologist and academic from Canada, Jordan Peterson, 55, is being defended because a British interviewer caught him in lie after lie, contradicting himself constantly. I watched the goddamned thing, and the idiot never should have been given a forum in the first place. He is much beloved in "men's rights" circles, but he is truly an idiot.
A point-by-point takedown of Peterson and his sexist statements can be found here.
I wrote this on the Channel 4 YouTube upload, which has some 65,000 posts and over 3,000,000 views:
I was horrified that Channel 4 has allowed comments following its upload of this interview--this is not a "debate." Jordan Peterson has no business being given a forum. If he were a racist, and he likely is one, he would not be given a forum at all. It's okay, though, to spout off sexist nonsense. He is an idiot, totally out of his depth, and it makes me wonder how he ever got his Ph.D. It is pretty obvious why the pay gap, sex discrimination, the notion of the family wage, primary and secondary wage earners, and the denigration of female-dominated occupations exist, and they have nothing to do with his bogus explanations, which I have heard for over FIFTY years, back when women had markedly different workforce participation than they do now. In the U.S., the pay gap has narrowed to about 21 cents less on the dollar gap (79 cents to the male dollar), but that is solely because "male" jobs have been outsourced thanks to ruinous trade agreements and the gutting of unions than with any real progress with women's economic status. No, it is much more basic. We need to tell the truth. The sexist assumption men are providers and women are dependents lies at the root of all the rot against women in the labor force. If you as an employer see women as dependents, then you can in good conscience pay them less because they are being supported by husbands. This attitude in turn coerces women into marriage and economic dependency, which is the goal of all this. Men in turn get the all-important sexual access and free domestic labor. The reason for women's denigration in the labor force is so obvious. You don't have to read Frederick Engels or Carole Pateman's "The Sexual Contract" to see the truth. All other explanations are complete and total nonsense.
The only reason this idiot has gained prominence was noted at the end of the interview, when he spouted off his objection to pronoun thought crimes as defined by the trans mob. He was hailed as being the next anti-PC hero. It wasn't long before his woman-hating bullshit gained him a cult following among the white dude contingent who also follow their hero Donald Trump.
The "stupid man's smart person" is a good description of this character.
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