Anyone written about how Jordan Peterson uses jargon as a guise for misogyny?
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Academic jargon having a decidedly narrow definition separate from a word's casual meaning is pretty common. "Patriarchy" is a good example.
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In Feminist Theory 'Patriarchy' specifically refers to societal power systems that are arranged to benefit men over or at the expense of women, that operate largely at the deepest foundational assumptions of what society even is.
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This is distinct from the casual meaning which, at its most benign, is more just about fatherhood.
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Common (often disingenuous) argument: "oh you hate patriarchy so you think it's bad whenever men are in charge of anything!"
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Now, this isn't to say 'patriarchy' is bad jargon. The word is kinda archaic and doesn't really see much use outside academia and theology. Plus it already encompasses casual definitions that are explicitly about power structures and governments.
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Jordan Peterson takes this disconnect between casual and jargon definitions and uses it to construct elaborate double-meaning fantasies.
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The "dragon of chaos" is "feminine" which, Peterson will tell you, isn't *actually* feminine but just a useful jargonized use of a word to evoke the binary relationship between the feminine chaos and the masculine order.
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So "feminine" isn't *actually* chaotic, it's just that chaos is described as feminine because it's evocative of the idea of chaos? Or it's just a random word he picked out? Neither of these is good.
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It's that recycled idea that women are irrational. Victorian shit reformulated for the incel age.
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