What a fucking sensationalist piece of shit.![]()
Internet dating data has shown that women rate 80% of males below average in attractiveness. Even if women have other metrics than attractiveness, those usually include either criminality, intelligence, or large incomes. All of which exclude the normal middle. He's not wrong.
On a completely separate note, I'm surprised you don't find his interest in fiction and myth as informative as a positive. He puts more stock into those things, as well as Freud, than I do.
JP's views on postmodernism are clunky and so everything else he says is horseshit, didn't you know?
I think Peterson is mostly a pseudo-intellectual in large part, to be honest.
He mythologizes the feminine into cosmic chaos, or some such bullshit.
He's not right either. Internet dating data reflects a selected group of people.
Oh man, this is exactly why I despise him! He mythologizes the feminine into cosmic chaos, or some such bullshit. This is exactly why literature is important, because it has resisted and dispelled such myths. If you think modern fiction is mythical in character, then you're seriously mistaken.
Also, if fiction and mythos is your logic here, then you can't degrade literary criticism in one breath and then praise Peterson's comments the next.
I think Peterson is mostly a pseudo-intellectual in large part, to be honest.
The sticking point is that I and Peterson both find critical theory and post-modernism as a whole to be generally pseudo-intellectual, and people leaning towards critical theory/post-modernism find the opposing views to be pseudo-intellectual. It's a rather formidable impasse.
Another one of those instances where it seems like you've not heard anything he's said.
JP said:Chaos, the eternal feminine, is also the crushing force of sexual selection. Women are choosy maters. … Most men do not meet female human standards.
Feminine symbolism and its relation to the concept of the unknown (synonymous with chaos in this context) isn't something JP invented btw, contrary to your earlier implication that he mythologizes it into cosmic chaos. He's referencing thousands of years of symbolism from a multitude of different civilizations.
I realize that. The problem is that he believes it.
New *sigh* Listen man, the fact that you get wet like a little schoolgirl around him really bucks my view of you, and I'd say that it's funny but I really don't like seeing you get all wiggly and shit. It's not becoming of a man.
Also nice attempt at holding me to masculine stereotypes, what next, you're going to take my things away and leave me a toy truck?
Agreed. But just know that in academia, he's widely regarded as a hack. In the words of one particular individual on Peterson: "It may just be that I spent enough of my life as an overconfident dipshit libertarian brainlessly repeating potted tropes to know it when I see it. He's at best a high-quality algorithm. Can't actually think."
That's basically what I get from his videos.