Jordan Peterson's (and my) Take on Incels

in commentary •  7 years ago 

Jordan Peterson believes that enforced monogamy is a solution to the apparent incel problem. In an interview, he said that incels were "angry at God because women were rejecting [them]" and that women would just go for high-status men. Judging by the wording of the screencap I got this from, there wouldn't be much context to take this statement from, so it might be entirely fake. In another (unrelated) article, the New York Times called Peterson a "custodian of the patriarchy" and claimed that he aims to "undermine mainstream and liberal efforts to promote equality." As usual, the Daily Wire jumped to his defense and said that Peterson believes in Jungian archetypes and is a pragmatist. Interesting as that may be, I will not go into Jordan Peterson's other beliefs and will stick to the incel commentary.

On incels.me, an incel forum, one user linked to a Tweet in which Jordan Peterson retweeted this article about incels and blamed incels' issues on the absence of a strong father figure, bullying, and general feelings of isolation and frustration. Other alternatives, such as government-issued girlfriends and masturbation with sex robots, fall short because they do not involve genuine attraction (or at least infatuation).

Do I think enforced monogamy will solve anything? No. I think it will increase domestic violence and rape rates and that these "incels" will eventually grow dissatisfied with their wives and try to either secretly "swap" them out for someone better or even kill them. The idea that people are entitled to sex is one that opens the doors to a lot of covert acts of violence that others will deliberately overlook in an effort to maintain the system that they know and understand, even if they know something's wrong with it.

Ben Shapiro, a similar commentator, clarified that he meant social enforcement as opposed to legal enforcement (because that's basically Shariah law). Given that social structures are much harder to dismantle than legal structures, if people are conditioned to accept these ideas as the norm, they won't see any need for it to change and those who do will be repressed or silenced by force.

Personally, I think incels need friends, counseling, and Steemit blogs more than they actually need sex and that their problems lie with their personalities and sense of entitlement to sex more so than their physical appearances. Masturbation, prostitution, and porn may seem like viable solutions, but they won't solve the deeper inner problems that incels seem to have such as jealousy and social isolation. Understanding the internal roots of incellery will be key in solving the problem at hand as they started out as a relatively fringe subculture, but later got a lot of attention after the Toronto van attack by Alek (NOT Alex b/c that's the wrong guy who deserves none of the online harassment he has received) Minassian.

Sources and Photos (DOA 5/19/18)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/30825/new-york-times-runs-comprehensive-hit-piece-jordan-ben-shapiro
https://twitter.com/coherentstates/status/997536919738376192
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html
https://www.salon.com/2018/05/19/right-wing-thought-leader-jordan-peterson-endorses-enforced-monogamy-to-appease/

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