Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1. Being a Canadian, Peterson must know that French has two words for pride, one of which is fierte, a virtue in a classical sense. The other is orgueil, and is a sin and always has been. Yes, perhaps the worst. (So, English is impoverished? Or is imagination?)
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  2. Has she consulted an attorney?
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  3.  @charleneblack2792  Maybe you're not the person to tell her to accept responsibility? Or at least not now. Maybe at 21, her present attitude is still due to her childhood. At 21, nearly 2/3 of her life was childhood, and another 1/5 was adolescence. That's still a big chunk of the total.
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  4. ​ @marywiggins7411 Reporting her and getting a lawyer might be better. We have to get serious with these people. Enough is enough.
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  5. Dream on.
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  6.  @mfasnoza1778  An architect MUST have a formal education, and a quite broad one: some engineering, applied mathematics, applied material science, and a lot of art and art history. That's why the example was so on point.
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  7. @justanothernick3984  Why is automatic "affirming" and social transition considered the correct approach for every child? Given the complexity of the human mind, human adolescence, and gender identity during this particular time -- or any time -- how could there possibly be one valid approach? Just a decade ago, transgenderism was a rarity. The fact that it is suddenly ubiquitous should lead us to ask questions, not inflict aggressive treatments that we cannot fully reverse. Since when do we not protect the future reproductive choices of every child? The only time we didn't was during the eugenics movement.
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  8. A good lawyer could prevent a child from being removed from her state of residence. There was appropriate care available in her home state.
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  9. @Gingerblaze  No, it was a political decision on Jane Eyre's part. She knew who she was, who she was talking to, and what she needed to say. Anyone who would ask her such a thing was unworthy of her trust. She had the pure singlemindedness of a true entrepreneur, in the best sense, and she knew when and how to display her talents. Jane Eyre is rightly regarded as one of the very earliest feminists works and scandalized a lot of people because of it. It is a brilliant novel.
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  10. ​@zarbins I'm not on social media now. I'm here using a pseudonym, to save videos. I only started this much during the shutdowns in 2020. Just say NO to social media. Even this has had a harmful effect on me, and it's trivial. No minor should post any pictures of themselves, ever.
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  11.  @divisadero8859  "Thank you" for rank falsehoods? Bloom died 15 years after Wolf went public with this, AND Wolf got that doctorate in English literature from Oxford. Failures my fanny. P. S. Er, Jordan Peterson invited her to his program. That should be a hint, at least, that you should look deeper.
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  12. @theBaron0530  I had older parents who were in WWII and friends whose parents were of that generation. None were coddled in the least. Most of the people I know who went to college were expected to work to pay their own way through, and to earn scholarships by working hard in school as well. The Greatest Generation sent their children to fight in Vietnam. I was just a kid then, but I remember well the utter scorn people had for anyone who did not want to go. It was brutal. The financialization of the economy did this. The economy is unraveling. We went from the top three quintiles having a very solid and secure life, and most of those in the bottom two quintiles having a real chance, to everyone below the top 10% being precarious. We are Debtor Nation. This is obvious to anyone not prey to magical thinking.
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  13. I know this might sound glib, but honestly, we cannot be so dependent on the evaluations of others -- and yet I know very well that we live in a time when their (stupid) opinions have exaggerated importance. Bigger things than "the right college" are at stake: she needs to eat good food, get good sleep, get outside, walk walk walk . . . And read. Have her go to the library and read something she enjoys all the time . . . always have a book going that isn't on any reading list except her own. Have other interests, too, and build competence. My heart BREAKS for these kids, I knew that what they've been facing before COVID was unfair, but this has gone off the charts. All young people are at risk for depression now. It is so important to prevent that. Put the big goal first. Of course she'll be fine!
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  14. Same. The choking games are the most frightening.
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  15. ​@dehistoriapisciumfish7639 Going berserk and cutting all communications because your mother wants to read a normal book on the matter, without suggesting to you that you ought to read it as well -- yeah, that is a cult.
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  16. @GinKirk7256  It's a great book. They're misrepresenting it. Actually, Jane Eyre does confront her abusive aunt and tells her categorically that she does not love her.
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  17.  @petegiant  Please take a basic logic class. If a woman sexually assaults anyone, man or woman, alcohol is not and cannot be an excuse for her conduct, either. Who said anything different?
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  18. If you want to be a true realist, then consider that a male who is not the birth father of your children can pose a risk to them, and to you, as well. Everyone believes that the man they fell in love with is "decent," and wouldn't have fallen in love had they not believed it. There would be no violence or abuse in the family if that were true.
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  19.  @adrianazollo2688  What's worse is that they don't even like sex.
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  20. Intelligence and conscientiousness no longer predict "success" but they do predict unhappiness.
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  21. She is married. Her first husband was a journalist, and they had two children together. Her current husband is an Army veteran and a private security specialist.
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  22.  @jimluebke3869  You know what, sweetie? If after watching this video in its entirety and actually listening to what Wolf says, you don't come away with the notion that she probably likes men a LOT, a lot, then . . . maybe you need to up your game? Maybe you'd have better relationships, too? Someone has trained you to be triggered instead of listening, and you don't realize you've stopped listening. Did you miss where she talked about her husband? He's a veteran. Her eyes lit up.
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  23. The central reason I never got raped was because my father had a gun. It was known he would use it. The number of people who have confided in me that they were raped is staggering. Literally every beautiful woman I have ever known has been molested or raped, no exceptions, and often in childhood. If you believe that bad things cannot happen to good people, all I can say to you is remember 9/11.
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  24.  @kwilloughby  Perfect post.
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  25.  @highroller-jq3ix  Tavistock's gender clinic has closed, Swedish clinics and French clinics no longer routinely prescribe puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in minor children, if at all; see The Atlantic article dated April 28, 2023.
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  26. A public school needs to initiate sex education as part of health education to prepare students for puberty, and then when students attain the age of consent, they need certain information for their own safety. If it is done well, it will delay activity without ruining the experience for them when they become full-fledged adults. Do you imagine that no parents sexualize their children? Lots of evidence that they do.
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  27. What "traditional roles?" When I was born, easily a quarter of the American work force was employed in agriculture. Today, it is less than 2%. I'm wondering what you think is traditional about any role, for any person, today. That women who can stay home with preschool children will stay home has always been the case. The ones who can afford to stay home are, however, afraid that once their children are older and they want to resume their careers, they will never be accepted back in the job market again.
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  28. Well that's funny. She actually went back to school fairly recently and got her doctorate. At Oxford. You know, in England. And speaking of age, in this conversation she and Dr. Peterson discovered they were the same age. Do women, like, pass their prime earlier? (Is that you, Don?) 🤣
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  29. This is like a spreading cult. Be sure it will come to a close soon. It just feels like forever.
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  30. @criticalcommenter  You make some assumptions here. What is this lust for victim blaming we seem to indulge in with relish? Where does it come from? (Grave insecurity? Cowardice?)
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  31. @katyt7470  I love how I was just censored. We can't even discuss literature. Worry about that. EDIT: testing, to see whether it's still up
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  32. @katyt7470  When Jane Eyre came out, it was regarded as a profoundly anti-Christian book. If you missed that, read it again. Jane wasn't seen as someone who was simply self-sacrificing but also as impelled by deep eroticism. This isn't the contemporary view. This is what people thought when the book came out. It was published around 1847, roughly, and by 1848, revolutions were springing up all over Europe. Jane Eyre drew more denunciations in the contemporary journals in England as being part of the kind of thinking that resulted in radicalism. The 19th century was the golden age of the novel, and people read books differently. They tried to decipher symbols and implied messages, figure out how much of the author's life or psychology was hinted at in the book, and so forth. People were shocked by the Brontë sisters.
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  33. There has also been a lot of fraud. Notice how every supposed "solution" is more or less dubious for one simple reason: it has no solid historical record of having worked consistently and well anywhere. But one thing the "solutions" all have in common is that someone will make money. True of charter schools, true of DEI "instructors."
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  34. I am her age, and every beautiful woman I have ever known has been raped, starting with my best friend in high school, who was gang raped. I only found out recently that my best friend in college was raped as well. She only told me after her husband and father had both died. My father was an immigrant from southern Europe, he had a gun and it was known in our neighborhood that he would use it, and would go to jail if necessary. This is what kept me safe. I am keeping it real.
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  35.  @onegorgeouschick  Do children "act like victims?" Did the Olympic gymnasts "act like victims?"
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  36.  @brianmeen2158  I see it right here. Be a woman who claims she was sexually assaulted, and that such assaults in her time were committed with impunity, and expose yourself to the kind of despicable psychoanalysis and second-guessing she is being treated to in the comments. Never mind that she married twice and raised two children. Never mind that she was a very successful author. Never mind that she went back to school later in life to fulfill her dream and got her doctorate in Victorian English literature at Oxford, no less. Never mind that her husband is a US Army veteran. Never mind that she resisted the COVID hysteria and the immoral vaccine mandates. None of that matters. Well, the number of women who have confided in me that they were raped is staggering. My father had a gun. I have no doubt that that is what kept me safe in the area where I grew up. I'm not talking suburbs.
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  37. Personally, I do not know one single truly beautiful woman who was not raped. Obviously, the number of beautiful women I know well enough to know something so intimate about them and their lives is small -- but the fact remains, literally every last one was raped.
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  38.  @wandadelange1322  Cambridge was wrong, and inexplicable. A stain on them, on freedom of speech principles, certainly.
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  39. Timestamp? I see nothing anxious. Social evolution has changed the nature of marriage. Marriage used to be socially and materially essential to childbearing, and people used to seek a marriage partner in order to raise children. I hope you see that is no longer the case, and has not been for a couple of generations in the US and Western Europe.
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  40. I am sorry for their ideological agenda, because tons of what they are saying is true. Too bad they put it in service of their partisan politics. Does this have to happen, to make money and get attention? No one will listen if they don't push anger or divisiveness? What they're doing proves the critique of society is correct.
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  41. "They" did; or "it happened" . . . After a certain amount of money, nothing is your own responsibility. Not even four or more baby mamas . . .
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  42. RFK Jr looks better every day.
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  43.  @benjaminz2523  Naomi Wolf clearly likes men a LOT. Open your eyes. If you aren't reading these signals right, please rethink your approach. That could be why you aren't having the success you should have.
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  44. On top of everything, a child can't be imaginative without risking grave mutilation. Leave the kids alone.
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  45.  @jimluebke3869  Sure didn't. She said she was grateful to Peterson for inspiring her husband. I remember that clearly, and loved it, even though I am not a huge fan. I can appreciate why many people are. I guess memory is selective.
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  46.  @jimluebke3869  I'll make a deal. I will listen again with your comment in mind. To me, it sounded like she truly met her match.
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  47.  @theBaron0530  Why am I being sense___oared? Why can't I ask whether you can see my comment?
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  48. She was in therapy -- why? And he went to Russia to detox. The kids need better advocates. Stronger people.
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  49. Well, explain this to me: a woman I have known my whole life just told me she was once raped, some 30 years ago, while at college. She waited to tell me until after her father died. Of course her father didn't do it (some cop she dated one single time did), but he always told his daughters that rape is extremely rare, and that most accusations are false. I was so shocked that I still have no words. My father, on the other hand, was an immigrant, very Mediterranean, and known in our community as someone who had a gun and would use it to protect me. He wouldn't have blinked an eye. (You can figure out the rest, I hope. His realism kept me safe.) Literally every beautiful woman I have ever known has been raped -- literally raped, meeting the full legal definition -- and no one punished in a single case. Explain that. I'm boggled by it. (The social context, by the way, is heavily working class with some professional families who worked very, very hard to get where they are, kids who go to college attend a major state university, and there are few private university graduates, parents or kids, apart from the Catholic colleges.) Maybe the cohort seeking psychotherapy is less likely to have a firm grip on reality in the first place, and more susceptible to the latest media-imposed hysteria. Maybe the kids from the social background you served are more naive or in denial about how money is made, through pushing just such hysteria.
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  50.  @09bamasky  Taking off a condom without consent has been treated seriously since the AIDS epidemic, and is a crime in many countries. Even married women with children sometimes find out their husband is not who they thought he was. Sometimes they pay dearly for that lesson.
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