He lets people quizzically infer what he means, then either says "maybe!" or "no not that, silly"
Telling a misfit youth that he should be building his life towards becoming a husband and father is rather different from telling him if he isn't getting sex at 17 he's a failure. But it does depend on marriage and family as a norm.
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as you noted how things were "up to the 70s", one could say that norm changed as women became more financially and legally empowered to leave undesirable and dangerous marriages. And that's where the subtext of Peterson's innocent shrugging starts rising to the surface.
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Yes! Now you're making reasonable criticism. I think he thinks that a moral consensus against casual sex would be enough, but I suspect (like you?) that economic and legal equality for women makes that impossible. That's the real argument here.
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But see how far we are from the original disagreement. "Dating advice for men... you deserve sex for existing".
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But that is still something incels do earnestly claim, and insofar as it relates to the Peterson profile, he was flirting with their grievances being valid, before smugly clarifying that actually he wasn't saying anything.
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In any case, I am sleeping now. Thanks for the chat.
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