Dr Jordan Peterson has broken down in tears during an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, following comments Don’t Worry Darling director Olivia Wilde made about him.
Olivia Wilde told Interview Magazine earlier this year, that Chris Pine’s character in the movie, Frank was based on the controversial psychologist.
“We based that character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community,” she said during the interview.
Labelling incels as “disenfranchised, mostly white men who believe they are entitled to sex from women,” she also explained why she used Jordan as the blueprint.
“This guy Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimises certain aspects of [the incel] movement because he’s a former professor, he’s an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously.”
During his conversation with Piers Morgan, the psychologist opened up about how he felt following Wide’s comments and the “insane” character that was based on him.
“This insane man, this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community, incel being these weirdo loner men who are despicable in many ways. Is that you? Are you the intellectual hero to these people?,” asked Piers.
“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,” he replied.
“I thought the marginalised were supposed to have a voice?” Peterson tearfully continued.
Dr Peterson also complained that Wilde’s comments were “kind of low level.”
“When Olivia Wilde made those comments, the first thing I did was go look at the preview for a movie, which I quite liked. I thought, ‘I would go see that movie probably.’ And perhaps I will. It didn’t really bother me.”
And it seems, the psychologist is seeing the “humour” of the situation. Explaining that Chris Pine was a “very good-looking man” to play a version of him.
Who is Jordan Peterson?
Jordan Peterson is a 60-year-old Canadian media personality and clinical psychologist, who has received widespread public media attention due to his “conservative” view on culture and politics.
Dr Peterson has been married to Tammy Peterson since 1989 and has two children; Mikhaila Peterson, 30, and Julian Peterson.
The right-wing psychology professor has made a number of extremist and abhorrent claims in recent years including the belief that feminists have “an unconscious wish for brutal male domination” and referred to developing nations as “pits of catastrophe,” gaining popularity among right-wing groups predominately online.
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