Name: Jordan Peterson: "I'm Not Anti-Feminist" | Q&A
Uploaded: 2026-02-23T01:35:54.000Z
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The first thing I would say is that I'm not anti feminist per se.

I mean, I think the idea that the world would benefit from the movement of talent from both sexes into the workplace as rapidly as possible is something that anyone with any sense should share, given the rather the rarity of talent and the necessity for utilizing it.

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I do stand by my original statement, though, that there's a brand of more radical feminism that insists that our culture is best characterized as an oppressive patriarchy.

And I think that first of all, that that's an appalling sociological doctrine, and

I think it has very negative psychological effects and they won't be limited to men.

Because if it's true that there's something toxic, let's say, about masculinity per se, what that will inevitably mean is that as women adopt more masculine roles traditionally, what is that toxicity somehow going to go away?

But that's a straw man, because no one says there's anything toxic about masculinity per se.

That's a phrase that's used about forms of masculinity that are harmful to men and women.

You must know that I read the American Psychological association guidelines for the treatment of boys and men, and

I know perfectly well that this is no straw man.

And it's not only devoted towards what you might describe as the more aggressive ends of masculine behavior, it's aimed at masculinity in a much broader.

There's a much broader range of accusations that are underlying, that are under the surface than that.

And so I don't see in what way at all that it's a strong.

Okay, I'm just going to pause that argument and go to Catherine McGregor.

And Catherine, I mean, you've lived on both sides of the gender fence, so what are your thoughts on these issues?

And just go back to the question that was asked.

I don't know whether that qualifies me or disqualifies me, frankly.

I ratted on the team, but not for any sociological reason.

But look, I'm not entirely out of sympathy with Jordan's critique.

I'm the oldest person on this panel by you, and

in my lifetime, I've seen rolling institutional crises through the West.

You know, the Great American Settlement based on Bretton woods and NATO and the United nations and so on is fraying globally, an area that I can talk about with some authority.

We're seeing a dissolving global order now with the rise of two autocratic totalitarian capitalist states, which is replicated in the conditions of the 1930.

And I gather we're not doing the geo strategic stuff, but I think it's very alarming.

When Robert F Kennedy, who was my political hero, was running for the presidency of the United States in 1968, he addressed disenfranchised African Americans who were wearing the backlash from many white men who were losing their jobs or perceiving that they were losing their jobs.

The deindustrialisation of the west as jobs are exported to the developing world.

He said, when you remove from a man the right to stand before his family as a breadwinner and people will say that's patriotic.

But the removal of meaningful work amongst especially unskilled men has a political consequence and it's been washing through the American system since 1980 with the Reagan Democrats, the fraying of the New Deal coalition.

I don't entirely agree with Jordan's analysis, but

the problem can't be gainsaid and 3 million books later in 50 languages or whatever it is.

I bought your book, by the way, and you're outselling Shane Warne.

Now, that's a culturally specific reference that delights me in two ways, because in Australian cricket, no one has more blood, bleached blonde hair or has had more work done than I.