Comments by "" (@LimeyRedneck) on "Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism" video.
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​ @RJALEXANDER777 Agreed, bees and ants would be more immediately recognisable examples, not sure that makes them better illustrations for his point though.
Without researching, let's assume that you're right in your assertion about social animals, that social hierarchies are still hard coded into our DNA (rather than "being",) from billions of years ago - and?..
Are you saying that all animal hierarchies must therefore be patriarchal, how so?
Does that mean that all human societies have been patriarchal and always will be? Or is it just the good western ones?, whatever 'western' means.
Agreed, cooperation gives us an advantage. Is cooperation only possible in patriarchal hierarchies? I thought JP would be for more competition...
Humans are animals, however nature that we are a part of, is more complex and varied than males are hard wired to dominate, or coordinate.
I don't necessarily have an issue with saying nature does x, or y.
However a lot of people forget that in nature z also exists and sometimes z+, g, b and, or t.
There's maybe a more nuanced discussion to be had than the main stream one about the gender pay gap.
However JP dismissing sexism as being at least a part of that discussion seems wilfully ignorant and he was condescending to Kathy, in dare I say it? - a very stereotypical male way.
If he was truly confident of his position, there would be no need to be so.
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