Jordan Peterson and Piers Morgan
Note One: "Incels"
I saw a riveting clip from this interview last week. When Jordan Peterson displays emotion, I am transfixed. My data ports are open, and I'm thinking: this is how a man is usefully scraped to the core. He gives up none of his strength. No, the emotion he feels now is deepening his commitment to his chosen ideals. In this case, he's feeling empathy for the "incel men" a Hollywood actress is bashing. As a clinician and speaker, he's been told over and over by these men that he gave them the tools to wrest meaning from a life that felt meaningless.
His emotion comes from deep experience and the manly requirement to fight for the honor of those who came to him. We have all felt bereft of meaning, and been called names by the dominant culture for it. We've all been the incel men, even and perhaps especially, the ones who hurl the insult today.
A man who sheds tears for these men sheds tears for us all at our lowest. And importantly, the tears produce useful work. They strengthen resolve. And so, we all are rescued.
Here is the clip:
And here is a clip of Matt Walsh talking about it. He exposes the casual hypocrisy of the modern left, and in particular, their demand that men "show vulnerability," yet when they do, they are scorned. Matt Walsh is very good at heightening these contrasts and exposing their illogic. I fully expect to have to replace this video with a copy I saved because these days, the left controls the tech platforms as well as the government, and I'm no longer surprised when such things disappear. The words of Ben Kenobi come to mind though, here.
As he says, "those were tears of empathy, not self-pity.
The whole interview is good. All of this strengthens my resolve to speak up and fight back. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
Note Two: "Why do modern women see toxic masculinity everywhere?"
Because they carry it inside themselves. From the interview with Piers Morgen, again, I think Peterson gave the most succinct explanation I've heard of the problem. I'm writing it down because it's more important than transitory video (nonetheless here is the timestamped location):
Morgan: You believe that most women probably like for their men to be strong and confident.
Peterson: I don't believe that, all that data shows that, clearly, and has for 50 years.
Morgan: Right, and most women I know would agree. So why is it that you've been so vilified for suggesting something which is so palpably true?
Peterson: Well, first of all [because] it annoys narcissistic women to no end, and it annoys people who think that there are no biological or cultural limits on how we manifest our behaviors, and...it frightens a large number of women because many women have never had a good relationship with anyone masculine in their life. So the notion that they would need to establish a trusting relationship with a man, and especially if he's in something resembling a super-ordinate position (which is [BTW] what they might like to have in order to find him maximally attractive) also implies that in some sense they're going to be under his sway. If there's no trust there, then that's absolutely terrifying. And, I have some sympathy for that because there are no shortage of women out there who never had a positive relationship with anyone masculine. And so they're completely unable to discriminate between narcisstic power and compulsion and confident competence. And so because they can't distinguish that, and they're afraid, they put all of that in the same category which is something like this: [Peterson brings his two hands together, where each hand represented those polar opposites] the predator category.
As far as I'm concerned, this sums up the deep suspicion of anything masculine that I've seen in the eyes of women in my cohort and older. Those women are the ones waging war on families and couples. They are the ones playing the snake to the Eve of a young women on the phone, always supporting her negative comments about her husband, and never her positive comments. They want to destroy men, and by golly, they've had a great run.
They made a mush out of me, for example (of course: I let them, so they don't get all the blame). Raised by a feminist mother and sisters, I apologized for everything male and came to fear the masculine as much as they did.
The end result was to make me weak and at the mercy of my desires and fears, just as they were. For in destroying the masculine, they also destroyed the masculine side of themselves, which is that side tasked with ordering the household of the self. This requires the acceptance of hierarchy (eww!), the denigration of incompetence (how cruel!), the awarding of more resources to the competent parts of the self, and the taking away of resources from the craven parts (how smug!).
I've paid for listening to incompetent voices, and very much want that other young men don't walk my road. If they start out strong, then they'll more rapidly build stable and loving homes for their families.
Time is short! This life is only an in breath and an out breath in the vast scheme.
Wherever you feel guilt, wherever you feel fear, wherever you feel anger. There are devils hiding. Go into those places and slay the beasts you find.