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He is your typical weak, scared, inadequate man child.

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Yes to all of this! They present millenia-old misogyny as if its revolutionary.

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

Hey I’d just like to point out that Jordan Peterson is buddying up to dudes like Matthew McConaughey and Russell Brand. So those guys are slime too — MM and his driveling brand of masculinity was all over my mothers daytime television all year, to give you an idea of how he’s sneaking into mainstream by connection.

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Feb 10, 2022Liked by Jessica Valenti

I love you!

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Feb 9, 2022Liked by Jessica Valenti

What’s so tiring about this JR bs is that we all know the kind of men who listen to this podcast. Two of my brothers in law are the target demographic and have a complete lack of emotional intelligence or curiosity about anything. The rest of us (women, POC, the LGBTQ+ community etc) have to adapt and change/grow while these men remain confident in their mediocrity. YA BORING!

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Feb 9, 2022Liked by Jessica Valenti

This is fire. Exactly right. Have you seen Andrew Yang’s recent plea for boys and men to be treated better, for the sake of social order? When even a guy who wraps himself in wokeness makes this argument, we can see how far back we really are.

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Feb 9, 2022Liked by Jessica Valenti

All true - and I also read about someone defending the man, stating that JR is just someone who is deeply curious about everything, which is why he also engages with those who are mad, bad and dangerous to know.

The thing is, that is not the behaviour of someone who is truly curious, let alone deeply curious. If you're curious, you want to learn things, to study them, not listen to X one moment and the next moment to Y. The Rogans of this world (on top of their good old boys' knee-jerking) are in fact deeply incurious; they don't use their brains as an engine for contemplation but as a remote control, zapping from one thing to the next, being both too restless and too lazy to focus on one thing for more than a few seconds.

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Feb 9, 2022Liked by Jessica Valenti

True and well said. I especially liked when you said, "they see the culture shifting" because I want to believe decency will win this battle we're in. I fear the civil war that's coming. I fear that our 30+ year efforts to speak, write, and teach may not be enough in our lifetime.

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Feb 9, 2022Liked by Jessica Valenti

Extremely well said. I'm going to steal these thoughts and claim them as my own in conversation. (Please don't tell anyone.)

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This sums it up perfectly. Thank you.

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