AIBU to find the comedian Katherine Ryan's turn to the right surprising?

He tells women that their biology makes them innately unsuited to contributing and succeeding at the highest levels of society. And that they need to overcome their biology to learn and ape the superior behaviours of men.
He has helped women negotiate pay rises by advising them to present with the same level of assertiveness and display of confidence that men do. An extremely basic and obvious piece of advice, around which he wraps a big woolly blanket of guff to support his unproven and harmful nonsense about pink (inferior) brains and blue (superior) ones.
I don't believe he has ever said he wants women to be in the home. However he has said our biology means this is the most suitable place for us. Which in my opinion is worse as he's disguising his sexist believes as a scientific fact.

Some women in the public eye aren't necessarily that progressive, but they'll ride that bandwagon if it makes them popular and helps their career. Given her current views, I wonder if she might have said/done "feminist" stuff in the past to help her gain attention and notoriety, not necessarily because she believed it.

I guess this sounds a bit misogynistic in itself. But sometimes I just get a vibe that what you hear someone say isn't necessarily genuine, they're just saying it to sound/look good. I don't notice it that much (I do believe that most women do believe in equality and feminism, if they say they are feminist). So yeah, that's my theory. Maybe she's just full of shit.

I mean more fool you really for spending so much time listening to so much guff.

Maybe clean your room?

No, knowing what Evolutionary Psychology says about one thing DOES NOT MEAN I agree with that premise.

Is these what the problem is now? Having any knowledge of something automatically means the person having that knowledge 100% must agree with it?

And? I am disagreable and I am childless. This is not breaking news.

Holding right wing views is no more having a mind of one's own and not conforming than holding left wing views. In fact right wing views are populist, so I'm always puzzled when people try to give them a veneer of maverikism.
Have you not noticed the support for Reform?
For every person disappointed in KR for following the herd to the right, I'm sure there will be others who have newly noticed her with approval now she's saying the things they agree with. I'm sure she knows this.
Regardless, the OP started her thread to discuss one particular woman who has freely aired her views in the public domain, yet you seem to want to silence women discussing the work and opinions of that woman, and get us to talk about men instead? So when a woman speaks, you think its best we ignore her and turn our attention to the men in her field?

Yes, there is quite a big difference here. There are lots of ways to be right of centre that MAGA are anathema to.

Do you think childless women (and men) have not fulfilled their role, then?

A public figure's views are the public 's damn business. That's part of the cost of being a public figure.

To be fair he has talked about helping female clients negotiate pay rises at work. That's not exactly the action of someone who thinks all women should be at home. He is iffy though.

He said that childless women are likely to be disagreeable, though.

Yep. It’s all very odd!

I agree criticising someone for not being left is silly but MAGA and manosphere are different. Manosphere is misogynistic ans MAGA implies total endorsement of Trump. You can be right wing without being that.

My issue with Jordan Peterson is not to do with his books at all but with stuff he's said on SM. I think both the life rules books are very sensible,,but his views expressed on SM are often not.

The issue imo surely isn't changing her views but what they've changed to. I agree supporting tye manosphere sounds like attention seeking.

I was confused by the dislike of Jordan Peterson on MN a few years ago - so I read his books. I had never heard of him until I saw his name on MN. He has some great points. I dont agree with everything of course. That would be odd.

I do think if you agree with everything someone says (be it a friend or a relative or spouse) someone is lying! It is normal and healthy to have disagreements and differences of opinion. I really wouldn’t want friends who agree with 100% of my views - 60% would be good. If they agree with everything I say I assume they are unsure around me and don’t trust me enough to say what they really believe. That’s not a friendship.

I think so may people have become very black and white - we look to others to gain viewpoints without reading or watching peoples work. Or we watch clips on SM rather than the actual interview. I have since met a few people who hate Peterson but have never read or watched him - it’s just they have been told he is bad by people who’s views they agree with. You can agree with some of what someone says, if saying I like some of his points makes someone dislike me, that’s okay.

This idea that there good and bad people makes me think of religion. Most people have complex thoughts and I love a good conversation.

In the last few years I have become increasingly aware that many people hide their views even from close friends. Liking someone even if they hold a different view seems to be more unusual now - I speak to so many people each week due to 8/9 very unrelated things things I am involved with and I am shocked by how may people make a beeline to me for a chat. I speak to new people every week too. Too may people have said it’s refreshing to chat to someone nowadays who is happy to agree to disagree.

I would say I’m pretty average at conversation and I’ve never been super popular until now. My phone actually doesn’t stop buzzing. Mindblowing as I was a bit of a hermit a few years ago.

I listen to Katherine Ryan’s podcasts - she seems to like to play devil’s advocate for attention so am not sure it’s worth taking what she says too seriously. As to Bobby it does seem she’s obsessed with having won back her high school sweetheart whereas he’s got a meal ticket to do fuck all.

He built her a swimming pool! Surely if they split she’d still have to fund his life style she sure wouldn’t be getting any maintenance from him.

I think she can be very funny and used to really like her, but agree the husband set up is bizarre. She’s always talking about how attractive he is and in the context of her recent facelift said that she needed it because he still looked good whereas pregnancy/motherhood had aged her - it did seem very much like her self-worth is connected to what she perceives as her attractiveness to him.

But he is so far from a catch this makes no sense whatsoever?! He’s not good looking, he seems very stupid, and most of all he appears to contribute nothing to their lives which are fully funded by her. It baffles me that she is so desperate to hang on to this total sponger - cut him loose Katherine!

She has talked about how her mum dated (and I think maybe married?) someone her age (Katherine’s age) while Katherine was at high school, so maybe there is some kind of trauma/complex there.

I see her all the time pushing her buggy with various dc I think she’s a good mum and definitely is a grafter. I have been over thinking things and wondering if the three with Bobby will go to private school and how much more work she will have to do? It’s eye watering the fees. I have too much time on my hands 😀

Tolerate MAGA? No thank you.

Mould is British spelling and mold is US spelling - both the black stuff and a cast.

Maga adjacent non educated husband you are really insulting here. I don't get this need to be morally pure politically we all have complex different views and being disappointed that Katherine isn't the full bloody lefty you expected is silly. I believe we all need to get better in tolerating different views without being insulting.

Yes.