Let's say you have a non-standard gender identity.
Hey, what the hell are other people supposed to do about that?
Like what are the rules here, right?
Because if you're a woman, I kinda know how to treat you.
I'm gonna do it in a stereotyped way to begin with cuz I don't know who
the hell you are.
So I'm gonna use low resolution approximations, and
those are gonna be stereotypes.
They're no different than categories.
And then when I get to know you, I'll particularize it.
But if I don't know whether you're male or female,
what the hell should I do with you?
>> The reason I wanna talk about this, is that I understand that there are people
who have been convinced that that thing you just heard speaking is a genius.
Not just a genius, maybe one of the greatest thinkers of the modern era.
And the problem that they are confronting, is that unless
they know what gender you are, and it's one of the ones they understand and
like, he doesn't know what to do with you, he has no idea how to talk to you.
And I get that you might still be convinced that this is a smart person,
even though you also ideologically believe that elites
who go to universities are bad and everything.
But you think that he's smart because he used the word resolution.
I have never found it to be difficult to treat a person regardless of
nonstandard gender identity or whatever as a person.
I feel like that's a good starting off point.
I don't know if that's low enough resolution for you, but
just treating them like a human might get you pretty far in life.
JR, what do you think?
>> Well, it's it's a big illustration of how hate gets in the way.
What am I supposed to do?
My approach to anyone is to categorize them and then treat them
a certain way based off of my perception of them upon visually seeing them.
So if I see you and I don't know what to do with you, why are you coming at me?
Sounds pretty fragile.
Sounds very snowflaky to me.
So, I guess the answer to your question, Jordan, is this,
this is a nonstandard gender identity people.
What am I supposed to do with you?
Leave them the hell alone, mind your own F and business, keep walking your
sorry ass down the street, I don't know, continue to be miserable.
Why does someone have to care about what they're gonna do and
say to help you figure out what to do with them?
>> Yeah.
>> Continue your hateful thoughts in your own brain.
This again goes back to the supremacy thought.
They think they're better than anyone else.
And again, why are you the authority on how I'm supposed to set up to allow
you to treat me a certain way?
Who the F are you?
Who cares what you think of me?
There's this continual thought that, I think this thing of you, so therefore,
you have to fix it and change it for me!
That sounds like a personal problem, bro.
I think you need to see a counselor on that.
>> Yeah, and I'll just say, if you are one of the people that likes Jordan Peterson
or whatever, I understand that you were convinced early on, that the reason you
should like him is he is going to help you solve actual problems that you have.
And these generally young, generally male people have problems.
They do actually have problems.
And so, the ground floor is that you need to clean your room or whatever.
But when you enter that building of his philosophy,
do you know ahead of time that he's going to convince you that you should be more
confused about your social interactions?
He's supposed to be solving your problem,
not creating ones that you probably never suspected that you should have.
His inability to navigate the most basic social situations,
doesn't actually have to be your problem.
There's no reason why you, because of your like attachment to him,
that you should destroy your ability to just have conversations with people.
If you don't know what a person is like, how about asking them?
How about see what they're like?
And not be weighed down by what is not, maybe, explicit in what he's saying.
But it's clearly there, he is wildly uncomfortable with the concept
that he cannot treat women in a stereotypically misogynistic way.
That was the underpinning of this.
If you're a woman, I know what that means and how I should treat you.
But now I'm not sure if I still get to treat you that way, or
if I have to treat you like the good people, the non-women.
That was what underwrote all of that.
And you don't actually have to think any of this.
I would argue it's gonna make your life much worse, harder to navigate,
if you start to act in this way.
So free yourself of the Jordan Peterson, it's gonna improve your life a ton.
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