NorthOfNorth wrote on Nov 5^th, 2021 at 8:54pm:


Grow a spine, you know what he meant.
Smith has commented many times he's underwhelmed by Peterson's intellect (LoL), and called him the stupid man's smart person (a left wing attack meme he ripped off).

Do you agree with him here, and if not, why haven't you taken him to task for it?

NorthOfNorth wrote on Nov 5^th, 2021 at 9:11pm:


No, I'm questioning your opinions on Peterson looking like an each way bet, depending on who you're replying to.

Hey North.

So we agreed that most of the hate Peterson cops is from people who have formed their opinions from an out of context 60 second clip, or people who willfully distort what he's said.

I've just realised I'm guilty of forming an opinion from a short clip.

Something he said that makes femos insane is that women are more agreeable than men and you'll get some butch bulldyke arguing 'do I look agreeable'?

This is one of his opinions that I somewhat agreed with, not totally.

Anyway, today on my phone on Youtube one of his old Harvard lectures popped up, and by accident, I skipped right to the bit where he was discussing that topic and he was explaining it with a ven diagram, and showed how there's a huge area of overlap of the agreeableness of men and women, but men occupy the side of extreme disagreeableness and women the side of extreme agreeablness and it's those extremes that contribute to the gender pay gap.

So when people think that Peterson says women are more and men are less agreeable, that's just not what he said.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Nov 9^th, 2021 at 2:00pm:


I've seen the clip with Cathy before and although he explained the % agreeableness plays on the gender wage gap, it really doesn't resonate like when he pointed to the ven diagram on a blackboard. If everyone saw that, there would be no controversy.

And on the Africa clip, every very moving. Thanks for posting.

An interesting take on Peterson's 'A Wing and a Prayer' video (in the OP)...

Paul VanderKlay (a minister in the Christian Reformed Church with his own youtube channel) suggests that Peterson's recent strange deviation from his usual long-form conversational format with a relatively short religious message was likely designed to further break into the American religious Youtube market by dangling (like a carrot) the possibility that he (Peterson) was preparing to declare himself a Christian and commit to a denomination.

It was, after all, clearly directed at the American religious right.

VanderKlay suggests that Peterson's media team (using Google analytics) discovered a vector for increasing subscription numbers and suggested that he try breaking into the religious market with a short clip, pack-loaded with religious imagery and metaphors, to achieve it. It seems to have worked in that his subscription numbers have increased.

VanderKlay suggests that Peterson is not likely to take that step of religious commitment, as Peterson has always maintained that he is primarily and solely a clinical psychologist; something he regularly insists upon - which is true.

Strange, then, that Peterson would go to those lengths outside the purview of the norm for a clinical psychologist.

However, (according to VanderKlay), Peterson is not above playing 'cat and mouse' with the religious right.

If VanderKlay is correct, then maybe the image of a tortured Peterson in the clip was a carefully constructed 'passion of the Christ' act of imitation, and not evidence of a psychotic episode.