Jordan Peterson hits back at director Olivia Wilde over 'this insane man' comments
Some studio gave this woman $20m for this? https://moviechat.org/tt10731256/Dont-Worry-Darling
https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-jordan-peterson-hits-back-at-director-olivia-wilde-over-this-insane-man-comments
In the movie, which debuts Monday at the Venice International Film Festival, Chris Pine plays the villain, who sets up an idyllic 1950s company town called Victory.
Pine’s villain, Wilde said in a recent Q&A with Interview magazine, is based on Peterson, who she calls “this insane man.”
“We based that character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community,” said Wilde.In the interview, Wilde described incels as “disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women.”
“They believe that society has now robbed them — that the idea of feminism is working against nature, and that we must be put back into the correct place,” Wilde said. “But this guy Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimizes certain aspects of their movement because he’s a former professor, he’s an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously.”
In his statement, Peterson hits back at Wilde’s criticisms.
”I am, currently — just to set the record straight — professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, which among those not pseudo-intellectual themselves still constitutes professor and member there of a department of psychology which is in the top 15 such departments worldwide,” Peterson said.
In regards to the criticism from Wilde that he’s an inspiration to the incel community, Peterson writes that these men are “unsuccessful enough in the dating market to remain involuntarily celibate, and which might be regarded in this context as the kind of derogatory slur compassionate progressives claim to eschew.” He says he is “pretty damn pleased” that some of these young men have found “solace” in his work.
“Many of the young men whom the progressive and cancel-culture-facilitating mad woke mob (which contains no shortage of bitter, self-righteous, victimhood-brandishing, virtue-signalling, accusatory and even outright demented mean-girl feminists) have shamed and tortured into cowering for ever daring to manifest a single masculine attribute have turned to my work and found some solace therein,” Peterson continues.
He adds that he as “repeatedly and very publicly” told young men and women that they should “think very hard about their own personal shortcomings and not the evil of the opposite sex, and that they should in consequence strive to amend themselves in the very ways that would make them attractive.”