[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

He had a fairly long phase where he went totally off the rails into religiosity and thinly veiled outright misogyny. He can and has "done better" - I suspect that the fame/infamy got to him at some point. I would I suppose agree that his motivations rarely seem selfish and where he goes off-piste it's for other reasons.

Originally Posted by Swan

People make out he's a danger to women, i've never seen that from him. Trump and Tate on the other hand, they genuinely are a danger to women. Morgan probably isn't a danger to women, but he's a complete slimeball and only out for himself.

A lot of his self-help advice is pretty solid, and also pretty universal and not hugely original. He just packages it in a way that resonates well with some people, particularly young men - which is fine, someone's gotta whip the NEET neckbeards into shape

Charisa aside, I think his interview with Cathy Newman did him the world of good. I usually like her, but her conduct in that interview made her look ... frankly a bit stupid, and that alongside Peterson's intelligence, both apparent aspects amplified each other.

As for his "misogyny" ? I've not heard or read anything from or about him in absolutely ages, so I might be misremembering - I think his attitude is roughly "based on current and past happiness surveys, and based on men and women's biological and neurological makeup, it seems they're happier when being a homemaker", which Cathy Newman might interept as "women should stay in the kitchen "