In a recent Interview q & a, Don’t Worry Darling director and costar Olivia Wilde disclosed that her film’s villain, Chris Pine‘s “Frank,” leader of a cult-like community, is based on “this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community.”
Peterson has never struck me as insane or “pseudo” or even eccentric — he’s always struck me as a routinely brilliant academic type and a more-or-less sensible fellow who doesn’t kowtow to fragile wokesters, and in fact has called out certain progressive behaviors and assumptions as untethered and even deranged.
Does Peterson have an incel following? Yes, but I’ve been listening to and half-agreeing with the guy for years and I’ve been living a somewhat robust sexual life for decades so what is Wilde talking about? I’m presuming that tens of thousands of non-incels feel the same way.
Now that Wilde has slandered Peterson, she clearly owes him a one-on-one debate in order to hash this out. Preferably on The Joe Rogan Show or Howard Stern or any forum that allows a semblance of free speech.
Wilde stated that incels are a community of “disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women”…I guess. “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.
“[And] this guy Jordan Peterson is someone who legitimizes certain aspects of [the incels] 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.”
That’s really a mischaracterization — there’s much, much more to what Peterson has been saying for years than just (if you will) catering to incel realms…please.