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Empowering Men:
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Jordan Peterson on MGTOW (Men
Going Their Own Way)
Peter Zohrab 2018 |
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Stephen
Baskerville has recently drawn my attention to Jordan
Peterson's views on the MGTOW movement. Both
Jordan Peterson and the MGTOW movement are important in relation to Masculism
and Feminism, so I would like to contribute my own comments here, based on
the video compilation of snippets of interviews with Jordan Peterson to
be found here.
MGTOW
At one point, Jordan Peterson says (about members of the MGTOW movement):
What's happened is that the female has been manifested in their life
only as the negative archetype and they've got that confused with all
women.
He was lecturing to a class (presumably about Psychology) and "archetype"
is a psychological term deriving from Carl Jung. I am not interested in
Jung's theories, particularly, but I would like to defend the MGTOW position
on women, although I am not a member of MGTOW myself. In Western societies,
there is less difference between one individual woman and "all women"
than you might think. This is because women are armed with an ideology which
calls them oppressed and motivates many of them to fight men together. The
moronic police-lawyer-judge-politician (PLJP) conglomerate is also little
more than a tool of the Women's Movement.
When I was a teacher at The Correspondence School, I was known to be a Men's
Rights Advocate, although I never discussed such issues there during working
hours, as far as I can recall. I attracted some hostility from some females.
One Feminist, Sue Sutherland, once warned me that women would defeat me because
they were organised. In other words, I might be bright, I might have researched
the issues, and I might tell the truth -- but women
were organised! Contrast this with what one man said to me, as I gave
him a lift to his home (after some function or other): "Men don't join
that sort of group," he said -- obviously referring to Men's Rights groups.
I had not been discussing Men's Rights with him, but he felt it necessary
to enlighten me with this bit of "wisdom", because he obviously
thought I was wasting my time!
So, many women in Western countries are plugged into a support network of
other women and moronic supportive males, such as the police-lawyer-judge-politician
conglomerate. Therefore, if a man in a Western country is in a relationship
with a woman, she is -- or can at any time become -- plugged into a network
which can gang up on the man at any time that that woman feels like telling
the network something about him that she or the network doesn't like. Therefore
it is perfectly rational for a MGTOW man to decide to have no (or no more)
relationships with women. Not only does that send a strong signal to women
that there is a real problem here, but a pool of unattached MGTOW men is probably
a precondition for the overthrow of the anti-male police-lawyer-judge-politician
conglomerate.
So Jordan Peterson is wrong to emphasise that:
Some females will do that to some
guys some of the time,
although that is true. The MGTOW point is that each man has to do a cost-benefit
analysis of having a relationship with a woman and the fact is that he might
end up as one of the victims of the Feminist network, although he might not.
"Pathetic Weasels"
Later, Peterson says (again about members of the MGTOW movement):
It's like you're a pathetic weasel.
In the second and later snippets of this video compilation, he apologises
for calling them "pathetic weasels" and he explains why he called
them "pathetic weasels":
They have what I would regard as an undue influence over relatively
bitter and resentful young men who haven't had great success in the dating
market and are looking for a rationale to write off all women because they're
so hurt by their continual rejection. And that is not good for those young
men. And so the reason that I disparaged the Men Going Their Own Way was
that I had seen the pernicious effect (These are often older guys) of their
world-weary philosophy on young men. Now these guys think that they're just
warning them -- and they are warning them --
but they're not just warning them. Now the
reason I regret calling them "pathetic weasels" is because they
also have a point. I do believe that the court systems are staggeringly
anti-male -- absurdly, horribly anti-male.
So the situation here is that Jordan Peterson and MGTOW are rivals who are
wooing the same prospective clients or recruits. Jordan Peterson would like
to have them as professional clients and solve their problems individually,
using clinical psychological methods, whereas MGTOW would like to have them
as members of a their movement -- albeit a movement which seems to have no
clear political goals, tactics or strategy!
Educational and Employment
issues are also relevant. Jordan Peterson himself is a star with a high-status
couple of jobs (professor and clinical psychologist). That makes him a high-value
male commodity in the marriage/relationship market. However, the "relatively
bitter and resentful young men who haven't had great success in the dating
market " who he refers to may be suffering the effects of the
fact that women tend to prefer to marry up (in class), while, at the same
time, Feminists have been doctoring and distorting
the educational and employment markets to
give women and girls an unfair advantage over men and boys -- resulting in
an increase in the number of men who earn less money than the average women
and are therefore finding it hard to attract women.
Jordan Peterson, MGTOW, the
Fathers' Movement and the wider Men's Movement
all agree that "the court systems are
staggeringly anti-male -- absurdly, horribly anti-male," as Jordan
Peterson puts it. Neither Jordan Peterson nor MGTOW have a solution to this
problem, although it certainly helps to draw attention to it and other problems
that men face, as Jordan Peterson is doing very successfully.
Feminism
The cause of the problem is Feminism and the solution is to abolish Feminism.
Feminism has put it into people's heads that women have been disadvantaged
-- although no one has forced the Feminists to compare systematically women's
disadvantages with men's disadvantages. Feminism is software that runs in
many people's heads and these people dominate almost every aspect of life
in Western (and some Eastern) countries. That, combined with chivalry,
is why the courts are anti-male.
How Feminism can be abolished is another question,
but MGTOW may be part of the answer.
Summary Haiku:
Men have no rights,
but aren't less human.
We blame sexism.
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