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Jordan Peterson Threatened to Sue a Critic for Calling Him a Misogynist - Secular Sanity - Sep 23, 2018 Jordan Peterson Threatened to Sue a Critic for Calling Him a Misogynist "I’m hoping that the combination of lawsuits will be enough to convince careless university professors and administrators blinded by their own ideology to be much more circumspect in their actions and their words,” Peterson opined in a YouTube video. The university seized on those comments when it asked a judge to dismiss the case last month, according to a statement printed in The Globe and Mail: “There is inescapable irony in the fact that Peterson, who has come to prominence through vehement advocacy of free speech principles, is bringing a claim for the stated purpose of causing academics and administrators to be more circumspect in their words." It’s all over twitter. He now has thousands of women calling him a misogynist. That would be funny to watch him try to defend himself in court. What a little bitch. Maybe he needs a "safe space." RE: Jordan Peterson Threatened to Sue a Critic for Calling Him a Misogynist - Syne - Sep 23, 2018 Canadian defamation laws are more strict than those in the US, and even that article says: “I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time — for 40 years — and they’re [sic] started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.” Defamation is, in many cases, an attempt to silence someone lest they have their reputation ruined. The exact same authoritarianism Peterson is referring to. And this woman not only defamed him, she seemed to make veiled accusations of professional misconduct: She told me, uncertainly, that “she thought she might have been raped — five times.” You might note first that she would not have told me this if I had not already gained her trust. No matter. That is defamation, even under US law. RE: Jordan Peterson Threatened to Sue a Critic for Calling Him a Misogynist - Secular Sanity - Sep 23, 2018 He should probably delete a few YouTube videos and the comments before he tries taking that one to court. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy "He was angry at God because women were rejecting him," Mr. Peterson says of the Toronto killer. "The cure for that is enforced monogamy. That’s actually why monogamy emerges." Mr. Peterson does not pause when he says this. Enforced monogamy is, to him, simply a rational solution. Otherwise women will all only go for the most high-status men, he explains, and that couldn’t make either gender happy in the end. "Half the men fail," he says, meaning that they don’t procreate. "And no one cares about the men who fail." I laugh, because it is absurd. "You’re laughing about them," he says, giving me a disappointed look. "That’s because you’re female." Uh…yeah, creepy! What a fucking boob! RE: Jordan Peterson Threatened to Sue a Critic for Calling Him a Misogynist - Syne - Sep 24, 2018 Another one Peterson has already roundly addressed: My motivated critics couldn’t contain their joyful glee this week at discovering my hypothetical support for a Handmaid’s Tale-type patriarchal social structure as (let’s say) hinted at in Nellie Bowles’ New York Times article presenting her take on my ideas. The author of the NYT article is obviously complete unaware of this. And the alternative to socially inculcated monogamy in nature is that the males fight, often to the death, in competition for mates. Maybe that notion suits misandrists, but without monogamous men, women are also subject to greater danger, as there is no special, protective bond between promiscuous mates. |