Peterson was close to tears but laster said the comments didn't really bother him
Jordan Peterson got emotional while talking about Olivia Wilde calling him an "insane man" and a "pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community".
The right-wing Canadian psychologist, who has come under the media spotlight in recent years for his controversial views on feminism and gender, was speaking to
Piers Morgan when he nearly broke down earlier this week.
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Jordan Peterson being interviewed by Piers Morgan (Image: Piers Morgan Uncensored)[/caption]
On an episode of
Piers Morgan Uncensored, Peterson, 60, was asked how he felt about Wilde basing the villain of her new film
Don't Worry Darling on him.
Morgan asked him: "Is that you? Are you the intellectual hero to these people?"
To which Peterson sarcastically replied: "Sure, why not. People have been after me for a long time because I have been speaking to young men, what a terrible thing to do that is."
The psychologist then took a long pause - his eyes visibly welling up - before adding: "I thought the marginalised were supposed to have a voice?"
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Jordan Peterson was very emotional (Image: Piers Morgan Uncensored)[/caption]
When Morgan drew attention to the fact Peterson was getting emotional, he responded: "Well God, you know. It's very difficult to understand how demoralised people are, and certainly many young men are in that category.
"You get these casual insults, these 'incels' - what does it mean? It’s like these men, they don’t know how to make themselves attractive to women - who are very picky."
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Don't Worry Darling, which tells the story of a 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community, came out earlier this week. But it was back at the start of September when Wilde revealed that the movie's villain is based on "insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community".
Speaking to
Interview Magazine, Wilde described incels as "disenfranchised, mostly white men who believe they are entitled to sex from women."
"This guy Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimises certain aspects of [the incel] movement because he’s a former professor," she said, "he’s an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously."
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Chris Pine's character Frank in
Don't Worry Darling was inspired by Jordan Peterson (Image: Warner Bros)[/caption]
Peterson soon reacted to Wilde's comments in a statement to the
National Post, stating: "Many of the young men whom the progressive and cancel-culture-facilitating mad woke mob (which contains no shortage of bitter, self-righteous, victimhood-brandishing, virtue-signalling, accusatory and even outright demented mean-girl feminists) have shamed and tortured into cowering for even daring to manifest a single masculine attribute have turned to my work and found some solace therein."
When asked by Morgan if Wilde's comments hurt, Peterson said: "As far as critiques go, that was kind of low level. Once I got painted as incel as red skull, magical super-nazi, that was kind of the end of the insults. There's no place past that."
He later added: "It didn't really bother me. I talked to my family about it right away and we were able to respond to it with some degree of humour. Which then people completely misunderstood."
Questioned on why did he get emotional if this was the case, Peterson took another huge pause, got emotional again, and said: "It's really something to see how many people are dying for lack of an encouraging word."
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