To ask what your opinion is of Jordan Peterson?

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I’ve heard his name a few times now, mainly people saying he is dangerous but that friends of theirs have started raving about him.
I only know what I have read within a guardian article (which I know is a biased source) but he does seem dangerous.
I thought I would ask the MN collective their opinion...

Who?

He's like many people. He says some quite sensible things. And many things that I find very worrying. He certainly thinks that women should know their place and I can't say that makes me feel fondly towards him.

Never heard of him/her.

Dangerous how?

Without googling I don't know who that is.

I thought he'd had his 15 minutes of fame?

He’s good for slobby young boys.

Dangerous lol. No of course he's not dangerous, how ridiculous, he just has opinions that are slightly gasp different to what most Guardian readers think. I think he's great!

Media savvie, clever enough to be dangerous, deeply mysoginistic. Has some wise ideas regarding mental health he is a professor of psychology- he has suffered depression and his teenage daughiter struggles with an eating disorder.
I dislike him intensely.

He is of the view that women only have choices in society because males have give them freedoms to do so.
He hypes up his controversial position because he know it earns him money.

Having Googled I now think he's one of those people who is a dangerous as you think he is, and that will mostly depend on whether you agree with him or not.

He's interesting on alot of topics

Better to watch his output rather than JP OWNS SJW type YouTube videos

The religion series is rambling, unfocused but also interesting

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A "quick google" may lead you to that idea.

I have read and listened to his work for years and find him an Insidious force.

His daughter doesn't just have an eating disorder, he actively supports and encourages it.

For that alone, he's batshit.

No idea who he is.

She doesnt have an eating disorder at all

His daughter has an auto immune disease that caused her massive problems which she cured herself by eliminating food until she ended up eating only meat and vegetables which led to a massive improvement in her health. Jordan copied it and saw large health benefits too

I’m not a guardian reader, per se. But I am left leaning which would give me my initial opinion of he could be dangerous’
BUT - as a huge caveat, I don’t like to form an opinion on bias if I can help it... I like to get view points from all sorts of people and genuinely listen and take them in. As long as they are out across respectfully that is.

Who?

I was on the fence until I watched his videos on God. Jeez, he is full of word salad. He can't define what God is and, if pressed, waffles on about it being everything good, a bit like Deepak Choprah.

Thinks the patriarchy achieved many great things, whilst at the same time believing that men and women were equally oppressed under it, not taking into account women not having access to the same education as their male counterparts at any level of society.

He is a beacon to young disenfranchised men but not really in a good way because he fuels their sense of oppression and malaise. So whilst he's not an incel himself, he is certainly popular with them.

I'd recommend watching his interview on Skavlan as well as his debate with Matt Dillahunty to get his views. Then you might want to find out more about Matt Dillahunty because he really is amazing.

He's pretty bland, old fashioned liberal, doesn't put me up nor down though his diet stuff is pretty dodgy.

Anyone advocating extreme diets should come with caveats in my view.

@arawia you cannot cure an autoimmune disease. You can manage with diet but many things can cause a flare. If this is what he claiming then he is batshit

The best way to find out about his opinions is to listen to them.

There are some quite lengthy discussions with him on YouTube. The ones with Sam Harris and Russell Brand are interesting.

I agree with some of his opinions and disagree with others.

He says lots of interesting things some of which I agree with some of which I don't.

I'm far more concerned about the number of people who think people voicing opinions they don't like is dangerous and that they should be suppressed and oppressed. I think they're by far the greater danger to all of us.

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I don't think it matters how much you read about him or his work. If you disagree with what someone with a platform is saying then you're going to think they're "dangerous" whereas if you agree with them you won't.

I doubt he's well known enough to be dangerous, which gives those that do think he is plenty of time to formulate their arguments against him on his level.

He and his daughter don't claim her autoimmune disease is cured, they say she's free of symptoms. Cured seems to be a term other people have used.

Deeply misogynistic