{"id":1675369,"date":"2022-10-06T07:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675369"},"modified":"2022-10-06T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:49:16","slug":"the-only-thing-toxic-about-jordan-petersons-masculinity-how-to-is-hollywoods-response-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-only-thing-toxic-about-jordan-petersons-masculinity-how-to-is-hollywoods-response-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing Toxic About Jordan Peterson\u2019s Masculinity How-To Is Hollywood\u2019s Response To It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-only-thing-toxic-about-jordan-petersons-masculinity-how-to-is-hollywoods-response-to-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Hollywood\u2019s recent feature-length attack on Jordan B. Peterson is the latest iteration of the secular West\u2019s war on men. The film, \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Darling,\u201d which The Federalist\u2019s Victoria Marshall <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/28\/olivia-wildes-dont-worry-darling-is-a-mid-century-modern-themed-fever-dream\/\">rev<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/28\/olivia-wildes-dont-worry-darling-is-a-mid-century-modern-themed-fever-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iewed here<\/a>, features a shadowy antagonist who is able to get young impressionable men to commit heinous acts through artfully produced digital communication. Per the film\u2019s director, Olivia Wilde, this character is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/olivia-wilde-reveals-villain-in-latest-film-dont-worry-darling-was-inspired-by-jordan-peterson\/\">b<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/olivia-wilde-reveals-villain-in-latest-film-dont-worry-darling-was-inspired-by-jordan-peterson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ased<\/a> on Peterson and was inspired by his ability to reach large audiences of young men.<\/p>\n<p>For many young men, Peterson is a role model. His followers will glean, among other things, that they ought to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=REjUkEj1O_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slay the dragon<\/a>\u201d within themselves and take responsibility for their own lives, they should make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/jan\/28\/12-rules-for-life-an-antidote-to-chaos-by-jordan-b-peterson-digested-read\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">friends<\/a> with people who want the best for them, and they can achieve their goals if they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OjoPod4NZ5A&amp;t=96s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">develop<\/a> themselves into capable individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Young men are starving for guidance, and Peterson is stepping up to tell them to take responsibility for themselves. He encourages them to be more than mindless drones whose highest pleasure in life is the fulfillment of their appetites. He offers them encouragement and hope at a time when their demographic is increasingly likely to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/up-front\/2021\/10\/08\/the-male-college-crisis-is-not-just-in-enrollment-but-completion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drop out<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy.usc.edu\/article\/american-drug-overdose-death-rates-the-highest-among-wealthy-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overdose<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/10495527\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kill themselves<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why is Peterson acting as a role model a bad thing? Why do cultural elites insist that telling young men they deserve a shot at happiness is the equivalent of unleashing an oppressive horde\u2019s barbaric tendencies?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consider the size of Peterson\u2019s platform. Frankly, it\u2019s an anomaly that someone with such a massive following uses it for such benign, let alone benevolent, purposes. What\u2019s even more anomalous is that young men want to listen to him lecture them on being responsible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not as though society is bereft of male influencers. After all, Dave Portnoy\u2019s Barstool Sports churns them out by the dozen, and with the advent of TikTok, it seems as though with each passing month a new Andrew Tate-esque figure triggers the algorithm. And this is fine, people like this serve a purpose and have a role; they provide entertainment. But people don\u2019t \u2014 rather they ought not \u2014 look to professional gamblers, comedians, and shock jocks for life advice.<\/p>\n<p>Men like this \u2014 except for Tate, who was arguably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2022\/08\/big-tech-banned-andrew-tate-because-he-got-too-close-to-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unpersonned<\/a> by Big Tech for being too effective at criticizing things the powers that be didn\u2019t want criticized \u2014 don\u2019t pose a threat to the leftwing orthodoxy, but Peterson does.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peterson encourages men to resist ideology, develop themselves into adept individuals, and take responsibility for their lives. Nobody insists that Alex Cooper from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.callherdaddy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Call Her Daddy<\/a>\u201d is evil for encouraging young women to practice infidelity, and nobody cares that Adam Grandmaison from the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/nojumper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No Jumper<\/a>\u201d podcast routinely talks about having drug-fueled orgies with his wife while promoting hardcore pornography to an audience primarily consisting of younger men. These people are lifted up as cultural icons. Cooper is treated as an Oprah-esque figure while Maison is in many ways a cult hero. Their worldviews and their lifestyles are congruent with current cultural priorities, why wouldn\u2019t they be rewarded?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, on the other hand, tells young men to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vp9599kwnhM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clean their rooms<\/a> and to actualize the positive reality in which they want to live. And considering how Western culture has aggressively eschewed masculinity for at least sixty years, it really is not surprising that anyone attempting to uplift it is treated with scorn. But this shouldn\u2019t be the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the whims of the cultural left, gender and sex are immutable forces. Furthermore, in accordance with natural law, men occupy an important space and role in nature, despite the objections of social engineers. Peterson is attempting to nurture men into developing lifestyles and worldviews that allow them to live healthy and productive lives while occupying these roles in fulfilling ways.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Peterson should be uplifted, not torn down. As societal trends continue hitting young men harder and harder, as more drop out, overdose, and burn out in a world that tells them they have no purpose, they will need a figure like Peterson to help them stay grounded and find their way back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A world without someone like Peterson is a world with more men who turn bitter out of pain and isolation; nothing good can come of that. A world without someone like Peterson is one where nefarious personalities have more market space to malign the impressionable without a counterbalancing force. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Samuel Mangold-Lenett is a staff editor at The Federalist. His writing has been featured in the Daily Wire, Townhall, The American Spectator, and other outlets. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. Follow him on Twitter @Mangold_Lenett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood\u2019s recent feature-length attack on Jordan B. Peterson is the latest iteration of the secular West\u2019s war on men. The film, \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Darling,\u201d which The Federalist\u2019s Victoria Marshall reviewed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}