I hate how whenever I say I don't like Jordan Peterson it's inevitable someone will say that I just don't understand what he's saying, or I haven't heard enough of him.
It puts me in mind of teenage boyfriends insisting that I read 'fear and loathing in Las Vegas' again because if I find the part where his friend rapes a teenager and then leaves her in the desert upsetting it's because I'm just not getting it.
I've listened to Peterson, I've heard the words coming out of his own mouth and I still think what's he's saying is crap.
It's all very basic self help, 'look after yourself', 'take responsibility for your own thoughts and actions'. mixed with long winded psychobabble .
He talks like he is a man of complete reason, but since when has Yung been about reason?
He is unable to see himself at all, he has no self awareness of the reaching in his own arguments but is first to accuse others of it.
His arguments are an exact mirror image of the feminist one, at first glance it may appear the same but actually it's all the other way around.
For example, the feminist analysis of fairytales is that they are born out of society, that the archetypes within them are produced by the culture of the time they reflect the values of that place and time.
Whereas Peterson's analysis is that they are innate within humans, that those archetypes are within each of us, as part of us. They are natural and not born out of nurture or the context of the time.
The idea that the world is just the way it is because that's the natural order of things is really harmful to women. It's literally anti- feminism.
Yes he may say some very basic 'pull your socks up', 'tidy your room', 'don't wank over porn' but please, we can do better than Peterson for a web chat.