Conservative philosopher and professor Jordan Peterson hit back at liberal Hollywood actress Olivia Wilde after she called him the inspiration for the villain of her newest film, “Don’t Worry Darling.”
In the upcoming film, which Wilde directed, actor Chris Pine stars as Frank who founds a utopian society in the 1950s under the name the Victory Project. While the place seems perfect initially, the sinister reality becomes more obvious when Alice, played by Florence Pugh, and her husband Jack, played by Harry Styles, begin asking questions about the project.
Wilde recently told Interview magazine that Pine’s character was based on Peterson, a Canadian with international influence and a podcaster with The Daily Wire.
“We based that character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community.”
Wilde went on to describe “incels,” a slang term for “involuntarily celibate,” as “disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women.”
“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,” she said.
“This guy Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimizes certain aspects of their 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,” Wilde added.
In response, Peterson made a statement to Canada’s National Post, noting that if an actor like Chris Pine was playing him, things couldn’t be too bad.
“Now, [Pine] has a reputation as quite an attractive man … so that could be worse,” Peterson joked.
“I also hope that Chris Pine at least does the sartorial splendor of my very formal public wardrobe justice as he pillories me in the latest bit of propaganda disseminated by the woke, self-righteous bores and bullies who now dominate Hollywood, and who insist that the production of such tripe,” Peterson added.
“I am, currently — just to set the record straight — professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, which among those not pseudo-intellectual themselves still constitutes professor and member there of a department of psychology which is in the top 15 such departments worldwide,” he wrote, correcting Wilde for calling him a “former professor.”
He pointed out that he isn’t some “insane” person, as he is the author of “more than a hundred objectively influential research papers” published between 1993 and today.
“I also taught and conducted research at both McGill and Harvard and was arguably successful at both institutions,” he wrote.
Peterson rose to prominence and provoked left-wing ire in 2016 after criticizing the transgender movement.
Peterson also found it sad that the supposedly caring and compassionate leftists were thrilled that white men would feel forced into the “incel” community because woke women refuse to date them.
He blasted Wilde for being apparently happy at the mental anguish of these men who are “unsuccessful enough in the dating market to remain involuntarily celibate, and which might be regarded in this context as the kind of derogatory slur compassionate progressives claim to eschew.”
“Many of the young men whom the progressive and cancel-culture-facilitating mad woke mob (which contains no shortage of bitter, self-righteous, victimhood-brandishing, virtue-signaling, accusatory and even outright demented mean-girl feminists) have shamed and tortured into cowering for ever daring to manifest a single masculine attribute have turned to my work and found some solace therein,” Peterson wrote.
Peterson also pointed out the many times he has criticized the “incel” ideology in the past, saying that he has “repeatedly and very publicly” told young people to “think very hard about their own personal shortcomings and not the evil of the opposite sex, and that they should in consequence strive to amend themselves in the very ways that would make them attractive.”
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