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alyesque:

Its funny because in a sense jordan peterson is right, that womens relative increase in social status is in many shocking ways because of technological breakthroughs with birth control and abortion. Obviously being freed from forced reproduction was crucial for advancing the cause of womens liberation by freeing women from the ways that such reproduction creates dependency on men, etc. 

But, because peterson is a moron and a fascist, this isn’t seen as a good thing for him. He uses this as an example of how biology means patriarchy makes sense, and says “oh hey look you have to suppress biology to overcome patriarchy so patriarchy is natural” but its like bitch fuck nature, fuck biology, yeah we overcame that shit. We made cool new technologies that have changed how biology functions because biology and nature aren’t the static things just like out there that we either ignore or comply with, they’re things we are always already participating in. Birth control is a biological modification. It is us as natural creatures interacting with natural processes. It’s not us “ignoring nature” but rather us participating in nature by changing it, which is something that most animal life does in various ways.  

He’s literally just so fucking stupid and so wedded to the idea of a deterministic biology and nature outside politics somewhere, secretly haunting us through myths or whatever, that he can’t see that we are creatures who natural alter and interact with our world and that sometimes that leads to new social formations and thats not a bad thing just because it threatens his social power as a man.

jesus fucking christ he is dumb