{"id":1696491,"date":"2022-10-16T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696491"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:20:03","slug":"rikki-schlott-jordan-peterson-isnt-an-incel-hero-hes-the-voice-gen-z-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rikki-schlott-jordan-peterson-isnt-an-incel-hero-hes-the-voice-gen-z-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rikki Schlott: Jordan Peterson Isn\u2019t an Incel Hero\u2014He\u2019s the Voice Gen Z Needs"},"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\">26<\/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%2Frikki-schlott-jordan-peterson-isnt-an-incel-hero-hes-the-voice-gen-z-needs%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=1696491&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-->\n<p>For the crime of teaching young men to assume responsibility for themselves, Jordan Peterson has been relentlessly attacked. But there\u2019s nothing wrong with telling boys to buck up\u2014in fact, it\u2019s desperately needed.<\/p>\n<p>The latest demonization of Peterson comes from actress Olivia Wilde. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/olivia-wilde-needs-to-be-in-charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> about a new movie she directed called \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Darling,\u201d Wilde revealed the film\u2019s misogynistic cult leader antagonist was actually based on \u201cthis insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is the pseudo-intellectual hero for the incel movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilde suggests that incels\u2014an online community of young men who feel rejected by women and often harbor hostile (and even violent) feelings towards them\u2014think Peterson is \u201csomeone who legitimizes certain aspects of their movement because he\u2019s a former professor, he\u2019s an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incel philosophy, as Wilde describes it, contends that women \u201cmust be put back into the correct place\u201d and that men are justified in \u201c[feeling] entitled to sex with women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/olivia-wilde.jpg\"><\/a>Wilde, who recently directed the film \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Darling,\u201d told an interviewer that Peterson was the inspiration for her movie\u2019s main character \u2014 a misogynistic cult leader. Getty Images for for CinemaCon <\/p>\n<p>As a young woman who has personally found great empowerment in Peterson\u2019s books and lectures, it\u2019s a characterization I know to be completely false.<\/p>\n<p>Although I\u2019m definitely not an incel, I read Peterson\u2019s book <em>12 Rules for Life <\/em>a few years back in my freshman year of college. I also pored through his expansive library of lectures during the pandemic. While Peterson\u2019s audience certainly tilts male, his wider message isn\u2019t gender-specific.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it\u2019s thanks in part to Dr. Peterson that, while it felt like the world was crumbling around me as a 19-year-old in lockdown, I decided to buckle down, work hard, and launch a career in journalism, rather than give in to nihilism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/12-rules-for-life.jpg\"><\/a>Past self-help, part moral pathway, Peterson\u2019s 2018 best-selling book \u201c12 Rules for Life\u201d has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Brian Zak\/NY Post <\/p>\n<p>Never once did I feel Peterson wanted to \u201cput me back into the correct place\u201d as a woman. Had he done so, I, as a feminist, would have recoiled in horror. Actually, I found him to be one of the few cultural voices who pragmatically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LASAIgBt-4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discusses<\/a> many of the challenges women face in balancing career and family ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the fact that Wilde\u2019s views of Peterson feel so removed from my own, he also took her attacks quite personally. Indeed, the famously stoic psychologist recently choked up when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lpnvGA-wJIE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> by Piers Morgan about Wilde\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been after me for a long time because I\u2019ve been speaking to disaffected young men. What a terrible thing to do that is,\u201d Peterson said with tears in his eyes. \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to understand how demoralized people are\u2014and certainly many young men are in this category.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/jordan-peterson-piers-morgan.jpg\"><\/a>In a recent appearance with Piers Morgan, Peterson expressed how much Wilde\u2019s words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the crime of teaching young men to assume responsibility for themselves, Jordan Peterson has been relentlessly attacked. But there\u2019s nothing wrong with telling boys to buck up\u2014in fact, it\u2019s desperately needed. The latest demonization of Peterson comes from actress Olivia Wilde. In an interview about a new movie she directed called \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Darling,\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1696493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696491","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}