Thoughtful, devastating critique of Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules for Life"

[anon75430791]

I’d post some pics of crawfish gumbo for the folks from the southern US, but you know. They’re not lobsters.

[MalevolentPixy]

See, with what I know of daschunds, I thought that would be:

Make sure you build a warm and comfy nest. Preferably somewhere no one esle can reach. This is your throne of power.

[Missy_Pants]

Newfoundlanders prefer Newfoundlander to “newfies” so you know.

And unless its cod or salt meat they don’t care.

[Mangochin]

@NovaeDeArx

But, and bear with me here, how would you feel about a “toxic femininity” term as a catch-all for all the nasty behaviors that “bad women” have? The “Let me talk to a manager” lady. The “Uses men for their money, cheats on them, dumps them” lady. The “histrionic screaming mother” lady. The “tiger mom who derives social status and basically a retirement fund via traumatizing her children” lady. The “Jumps on any social movement bandwagon and learns just enough about it to be annoying at Starbucks and on Facebook” lady. The “flirts with her boss and uses her sexuality to get ahead at work” lady. And so on, and so on.

Yes, tell me more…

[Mangochin]

With ponzu. Its unami-licious!

[Mangochin]

Nah, they are too busy taking out their inherent aggression on you. Lamenting the cruel fate of selective breeding which has left them as the only dog breed which has difficulty licking its genitals.

[Melz2]

@Mangochin

With ponzu

I had to google that.

[Missy_Pants]

OMG ponzu is delicious! There is lime and lemon versions! Depending on your desire! I use it more than I use regular soya sauce! Om nom nom!!

[anon15383236]

@Melz2

I had to google that.

I guess that makes you another victim of @Mangochin’s ponzu scheme.

[Melz2]

@Missy_Pants

There is lime and lemon versions!

Sounds like that’s right up my kid’s alley; she likes Japanese food, and loves lemon and lime on pretty much anything savory.

@anon15383236

I guess that makes you another victim of @Mangochin’s ponzu scheme.

There are worse schemes to get caught up in…

[MalevolentPixy]

(small) words here (/small) works for me. Replacing ( brackets with < ones, of course.

[Melz2]

_{Roger that!}

[fitzador]

It’s obviously part of the self-help genre, but without any kind of solution. Peterson identifies problems, but then leaves open what the reader is to do to rectify the problems. The problem with this, of course, is that vagueness allows anyone to fill the void with anything, up to and including murder, as a remedy for what’s wrong. As the TLS review observes, Peterson states a universal claim, such as “there are hierarchies” and advises his readers that they have to be at the top of those hierarchies – but how they will do that goes unsaid. Or, Peterson observes that things ain’t what they used to be (meaning white men can no longer succeed merely by showing up) – but without addressing how his readers can survive in this new world (other than, perhaps, reversing the course of history – the likely effect envisioned by many voters of a Certain Orange Person).

[coherent_light]

Oh, thanks! Now my text will be unstoppable.

[coherent_light]

@Medievalist

Unfortunately I find when I’ve tried to read his work it bores me into a stupor, so I can’t analyze it for usefulness.

I’d rather read that crayfish study. It’s not even in my wheelhouse.

[teknocholer]

@coherent_light

Now my text will be unstoppable.

Admire my enormous text!

Like [small] only [big].

[Melz2]

@teknocholer

Admire my enormous text!

Amateur.

[coherent_light]

I lament there’s no [McLargeHuge] tag.

HTML (or whatever this is) could have been fun.

[anon15383236]

@fitzador

Peterson states a universal claim, such as “there are hierarchies” and advises his readers that they have to be at the top of those hierarchies – but how they will do that goes unsaid.

So you’re saying if I clean my room, that won’t suddenly make me master of the universe?

How bout if I start wearing lobster claw prosthetics?